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³ Barros, Dec., IV, 1, vii, cap. 6; Sewell. For. Emp., pp. 174-5. On Assud Khan, see Firishtah, Briggs, The Rise, III, pp. 83, 85. There is a copper plate of the times of Sriranga Rāya, dated Saka 1569, Sarvajit (A.D. 1647-8) which says that for the merit of Hazrati Khāna Sāhēbulavāru, the nādigaru, the sthalapaṭṭana-reḍḍis and the karaṇams of Peda-Nandyālasime, included in the Peda-Kaṇṭi-sime, granted to a certain Timmayya (descent stated) specified contribution of fees from the several professional communities of Nandyāla (Kurnool district) and from about seventy villages of the same sime for conducting the chappara-service of the god Venkaṭēśa. C.P. No. 1 of 1915-6. We know that Sriranga Rāya took shelter at the court of Bednore in A.D. 1646. If his authority in A.D. 1646 and after was in any sense real, the evidence of this copper-plate grant would be interesting. B.A.S.