FOREWORD.
This "Vamsacharitram" of the Venkatagiri Rajahs is intended to reach the hands of the English-knowing public, as the Telugu history is naturally more limited in its scope of usefulness. Not only are the spirited Telugu verses and detailed inscriptions and sannads in Telugu script left untranslated in this pamphlet as being unnecessary, but it has also been the object of this edition to omit all topics of a more or less controversial nature, as these are discussed in detail in the introduction to the Telugu volume, while at the same time, the events recorded miscellaneously in that volume have been culled and collected chronologically under several heads, with a view to bring the book as far as possible on the lines of a recent Chronicle. If still it should strike the mind of one that the
