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¹ Ferishta, III, p. 141, evidently misplaces this event, as we have previously pointed out. The ruler of Penukonda, Venkatadri, giving the command of the place to one of his nobles and retiring to Chandragiri, is a fact which cannot be placed in 1576-7, during the reign of Ranga I, precisely when this sovereign was made prisoner, or when his capital was so brilliantly defended by Jagadevaraya. Cf. Ch. XII, Nos. 5 and 6. The misplacement of a page of the MS. may explain this incongruence. Mr. H. Krishna Sastri, The Third Vijayanagara Dynasty, l. c. p. 185, and Dr. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, before us, have acknowledged the anomalous occurrence.