'pay 14,000 rupees, and for the balance, rupees 36,000, I will mortgage my [village named] New Tank. I request that after having received the balance due, you will persuade (Balavant Rao) to give up the village." So Kesiva Rao went back to head quarters and reported this to Balavant Rao, who consented. Then [Kesiva Rao] came back and took the 14,000 rupees in coin,[1] and [the deeds mortgaging] the village. He carried his honour Basava four miles along with him, and then gave him leave to return to the fort, with every mark of consideration, bestowing upon him according to the ancient custom a dress[2] of honour, with a horse, and equipments. Afterwards Basavappa having returned to the fort with all these gifts, laid them before his Master Sidda Ramapa, who was much pleased. Next day the army broke ground and marched by the Parlapallē road.
14. Basavappa Nayudu let out the waste lands under special agreements and caused the tillage to be increased: and after collecting the revenue due on the crops reaped in the month Kartica, he sent to Balavant Rao, by means of Bava Saheb, the sum still due, being 36,000 rupees. Whereupon he [Balavant Rao] recalled the officers [whom he had appointed to hold the mortgaged lands] at New tank.
Afterwards, Basavappa Nayudu set this village to rights, and superintended the whole realm [or barony.]
Formerly while he [Basavapa] was passing from Bellari to Vemula, (see chapter V. No. 5) on his way, he halted near Pamudurti, and sent and asked for grass, firewood, and other articles from Yoganandam, the master of Ellutla in the Tadimarri district, who was then in that village; but that person treated the message with contempt, and said "these things are not to be had here." And he sent away the messengers without.[3] [Basavappa] laid this up in his heart. He set out on horseback under cover of night, and rapidly reached Ellutla, which was more than ten coss from Anantapuram. Just as it was dawning he halted in the chapel of Saint Hanumant, in the suburbs. He there seized upon Yoganandam, with his cattle and his people and plundered the village.
