arsenal,[1] and his two wives Devamma and Girijamma: and Siddappa Nayu who was Devamma's son: he took them and set out on his journey: but while he was passing near Pedda Palem, which is twenty-six coss from Anantapuram, in the way, [the Fury[2] considered] that if Pavadapa Nayu reached [the shrine at] Gocarnam, she would lose her power over him. She therefore tempted him[3] and made him strangle himself and die. As soon as he died Jamdarkhana Mallappa who was along with him, covered up his Palankeen in a veil:[4] he said to the wives and child, Do not weep aloud: we are now in foreign parts: our business might (by your weeping) be greatly injured. So saying he strictly charged them: then he set out with haste for Anantasagaram (also called Cotta Cheruvu, or, Newtank.) There in the convent of the Saint Nidu mamidi, to the west of Newtank, in the year Pingala which is year 1659 of the Sālivāhana Sacam [A. D. 1737] he buried this Pavadapa Nayudu.
CHAPTER THIRD.
1. Afterwards, as Ramapa Nayu, son of Prasannapa Nayu [who was murdered by the courtezan] was not at hand, Siddappa Nayu (son of Pavadapa Nayu) was crowned, near (Cotta Cheruvu) 'Newtank' in the year Calayucti, SS. 1660 [A. D. 1738]. He thus came to the throne.[5]
But Siddamma the widow of Prasannapa Nayu, who was at Anantapuram, on seeing that the realm had not descended to her son, but had gone to her (maridi) husband's-younger-brother's son; fearing what evil might happen in consequence, she set out, carrying her son Ramapa Nayu; fled from Anantapuram, and went to Muddu
- ↑ Jam-dhar is a dagger: the repository of swords.
- ↑ Here Bramhatya, or the guilt of manslaughter is represented as a personage which we may render by a Fury or demon-goddess.
- ↑ Page 18.
- ↑ Ghatātōp, a Marata word for a conveyance in which a woman is concealed by veils.
- ↑ This passage is a fair instance of inversion of style.
