A Manual Of The Kistna District In The Presidency Of Madras

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Excerpt from A Manual of the Kistna District in the Presidency of Madras: Compiled for the Government of Madras The Government of Madras in Order No. Dated 23rd December 1880, entrusted me with the duty of com piling the Manual of the Kistna District. Mr. G. D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...track) and it is the nearest route from Guntiir to the Buckingham Canal in the hot weather when the river canals are closed. The telegraph wire follows this line to Ongole. At Prattipadu are two temples, the Siva temple built by the Chola kings and the Vishnu temple built by the Reddis of Kondavidu. The former has seven inscriptions ranging from A. D. 1222 to 1638, and the latter has an inscription not yet read. The new Madras road follows the lino of the western road for, more than a mile out of Guntiir and then branches Fotturu. off to the south-west past the villages of Potturu Yanamadala (illegible inscription south of the Vishnu temple) and Yanamadala/ which in former days was a place of much importance. The name Yanamandala is said to denote "herds of elephants." Mr. Sewoll gives a list of twelve inscriptions in the four temples, and there is an important inscription on a stone lying in the street, a translation of which is appended to Chapter I. The western road from Guntiir passes through the village of Nallapadu, four miles from Gunttir. Near the first rock outliers of the Kondavidu range of hills is a chattram recently erected by a merchant. It is a lonely habitation and the locality bears a bad reputation after night-fall among travellers. The road passes through the hills in a picturesque defile at the sixth mile-stone and at the seventh mile-stone bifurcates, one road going to Narsaravupet, Vinukonda and Cumbum, the other to Sattenapalle, Dachepalle and Haidarabad. Formerly this western road left Guntiir by what is now called the Ring road and passed round the northern outlier of the hills at the village of Pedda Palakaliir. This path still exists, but is almost stopped by the growth of prickly-pear. The...