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‘An interesting case is recorded in this inscription : when the prince Bukka Rāya was Governor of Penugoṇḍa in A. D. 1388, he ordered the hydraulic engineer to bring the Henne river (the modern Pennār) to the city. Accordingly a channel was made from Kal-lūḍi to the Siravera tank, 10 miles to the north. How the water was carried beyond that does not appear. An amusing accounr is given of the accomplishments of the engineer who was mastet of ten science ’