stone image of me, place it under a tree, and worship it." Accordingly they erected it, and worship her: but there is no chapel.
Besides, if people who passed this way or that way near the breach cried out "Musalamma" she used to reply "Ho!" But one day in the evening[1] as men went for grass, and called to her in the same manner, she answered. On hearing her, they replied, though thou art dead thou art still proud. From that time she never answers. From that day [Saint] Musalamma is worshipped.
Villages as great as this Bucca Raya Samudrana and Anantapuram: and lakes as great as these, are no where else to be seen.[2]
4. Afterwards[3] Krishna Rayalu a descendant of Bucca Raya ruled Vidyanagar; and he died in the Salivahana Sacain year 1487[4] named Krodhana [A. D. 1565] on Sunday, the sixth day of the bright fortnight in the month Jyeshtha[5]
His wives were two, named Ohinna Devi and Tirumala Devi: as they had only female children, Tirumala Devi's daughter was married to Rama Rayalu: and Chinna Devi's daughter was given in marriage to his younger brother Tirumala Rayalu.
Then these ladies [the queens dowager] proposed to crown Rama Raya as "Son-in-law Regnant."[6]
5. There was one Salacam[7] Timmaiia who was a (golla) treasurer of 'the household : he saw that the country was in confusion; as the
- ↑ Lit. One day at night.
- ↑ Thus far the Introduction: which the learner may omit for the present because it may in some places appear intricate.
- ↑ Page 3.
- ↑ Aguneti is "corresponding to."—The manuscript states 1387 but this is clearly and error: for that year is not Krodhana, and is long before the well known era of Krishua Rayalu.
- ↑ This prince's death is sometimes misdated in the yearn Tarana, SS. 1387, that, A.D. 1464. But the petty ruler who died that day is some other raja of whom nothing certain is known.
- ↑ Lit. they conferred the Aliya-pattam. "The word Aliya in Kannadi signifies a son-in-law." Pattam is installation.
- ↑ In Telugu and Kannadi, the family name stands first: thus we should say Timmaiia of the Salacam family.
