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queen, and said that the time had now arrived for them to become famous in the world, so long as the world would last. Thereupon the two sons girded up their loins, and, intent upon acting up to the dictates of their mother, came as cheerfully as a person going to his own marriage, to Varadarajamma, for that was the name by which the exiled queen was familiarly known to them, and said :-"O mother, bless us that our dames may last as long as the world lasts !" The queen was delighted at the brave words uttered, and told them of her incompetence and inability to do anything for them in return. But she offered them some money which they might devote to a charitable purpose. On this they said that if she was really in earnest about it, she might baild two cities in their honour and in their names. Varadarajamma gladly acceded to the proposal, and then the two brothers went fearlessly like two brave warriors going to battle, and with hands upraised offered their prayers to Paraméávara, and entered the ghds as if to gain a victory over the lord of the waters. The diggers of the tank thereupon threw a few baskets of mud over their heads. Everything afterwards, it is said, went on smoothly. Varadarajamma, as promised, built two villages in honour of them. The brothers went by the names of Peda Kambada and China Kambadu, and the villages bear the names of Peda Kambam and China Kambam. Their fame was afterwards amalgamated under the name of Kambam, familiar to all the presidency of Madras.
So far about the story of Krishnaraya's first marriage. Let us now turn our attention to some of the conquests he made. We have seen that in 1515 A. D. he started on & plan of campaign for subjugating the southern country, and brought under his sway Kondavidu, Bellamkonda, Vinukonda, Bezwada, Kondapalli, Rajamahêndri, etc. In 1516, he raised a stone pillar at Potnûr, about ten miles distant from Bhimilipatam in the Vizagapatam district, describing the conquests he had made. He then extended his conquests to Vaddathi in the Viravalli Talnk of the same distrct, went on to Cuttack in Orissa and set fire to it, when Prat&parudra, king of Kalinga, who was reigning over Orissa, effected a reconciliation with him by offering him the hand of his daughter in marriage. Krishnaraya, therefore, gave back the whole of the Kalinga country, as far as RAjamahêndri, to Pratâparudra, and entered Kanchipura, the modern Conjeeveram, in the Chinglepat District, towards the end of 1516 A. D. His marriage with the daughter of the Raja of Orissa and his return to Vijayanagara form the concluding portions of Krishnaráyacharitra, a work by Dhúrjati, son of Arugandi Käsipati, composed by the order of the ruler of Arvidi in the Ceded Districts.
(To be continued.)
MISCELLANEA. KALAMPAT-A FORM OF EXORCISM. object of the ceremony, wbieb is got up by the The Kalampat is a ceremony performed in relatives of the young wife, but her husband has certain parts of Malabar by Nairs, Tiyyas and to meet the incidental expenses. other Malayali Hindus : in the case of a
If the object is to guard against the mismarried Malayali Hindu girl of seventeen or
fortune of barrenness, an auspicious day is eighteen years of age, with the view either of
chosen for the function, but if the end in view bringing about maternity; and with the view
is an easy delivery, some day in the seventh of insuring easy delivery in the case of a
month of pregnancy is fixed upon. A pandal, woman who is enceinte.
standing on four pillars, decorated entirely with The evils of barrenness and miscarriage are fruit and flowers, and ceiled and screened at one ascribed to malignant genii who have special end with cloths, is put up for the occasion. power and influence over women. These spirits Burning lamps are suspended near each of the are Vimana Badakal (Spirit of the Skies), pillars, and the sanctuary thus made is adorned Vimana Sundaran (Siren of the Skies), with a representation of Kamen, the Cupid of Yecchen, Brahma-Rakshasan, Uddal Varatti the Hindu Pantheon, wrought into a carpet made (Drier of Body), Pillay-Thini (Eater of Infants), of field and meadow blossoms and pigments of and Rekta-Eeswari (Goddess of the Blood). I various colours. A pot of gurusi (consecrated The propitiation of these malevolent impe is the water) is placed near the spot.
