the Telugu language, and the subject of it was the rape committed on a virgin of the Vysia cast by the prince Vishnu Vardhana. In the poem a pathetic discription is given of the lamentations of the unfortunate damsel, who had her chastity corrupted and who being inconsolable at the loss of her virginity immolated herself on a flaming pile—it is said, that one hundred families who were related to this maiden sacrificed themselves with her. This tragical event happend at Penugonda near Rajamahendry. After the death of the above-named Virgin a temple was erected in honor of her, where an idol was established called Kanakaparaiwarames, which is still in existence, and people of the Bannian cast pay adoration and homage to it,
TEKKANA SOMAYAGI.
This was a famous Historian and Poet, and a native of a village, called Petture in the Nellore district, he flourished in the twelfth century of Salivahana. When he was very young, he studied Sanscrit and Telugu under Kavi Rakshasa, and in a short time made very rapid pro-
