the cardinal incidents mentioned in it to the first quarter of the 11th century A.D. The actual spots where the principal events of the tragedy were enacted are still pointed out at Penugonda. Thus, the garden in which king Vishnu Vardhana halted is said to be the site on which the hamlet of Vanampalli (meaning village of gardens) stands at present. The spot where the huge fire-pit for Kanyakamma was dug is pointed out as having been in field Nos. 63/3 and 63/4 to the north of the now non-existent Nagarasamudram tank. The 102 other pits were, it is said, in the fields round the bund (embankment) of this tank. The tank is now under cultivation, but faint traces of the bund are said to be still visible. It is about two furlongs to the north-west of the temple of Nagaresvaraswami. It is locally believed that Kanyakamma's fire-pit was, on the morning following her tragic end, found to contain, among the ashes, a golden likeness of herself, which was placed by the side of the image of Nagareswara, to whom she had been married. Long afterwards, the golden image was removed, and one in stone substituted for it, in accordance, it is said, with the direction of Kanyakamma, who appeared to one of the townsmen in a dream. The temple of Nagaresvaraswami has several inscriptions on slabs, built into its prakara, and elsewhere. One of these is on the gateway inside the prakara walls. It opens with a glowing description of the powers of Nagaresvaraswami in giving blessings and gifts, and refers to Penugonda as one of the eighteen towns built by Visvakarma, and presented by Siva to the Komatis as a place of residence. The object of the inscription appears to be to record the restoration by one Kothalinga, a Komati whose genealogy is given, of the great town (Penugonda), which had been burnt to ashes by a Gajapathi king. He is also stated to have made grants of tanks, wells, and pleasure gardens, for the benefit of Nagaresvaraswami, for whose daily offerings and the celebration of festivals he provided by the grants of the villages of Mummadi, Ninagepudi, Varanasi, Kalkaveru, and Mathampudi, all included in the town of Penugonda. Various inscriptions show that, from so early a time as 1488 A.D., if not from still earlier times, the temple had become popular with the Komatis, and got intertwined with the statements now found in the Purana. Rai Bahadur V. Venkayya, Government Epigraphist, writes to say that the Teki plates found in the Ramachandrapuram taluk of the Godavari district, and published by Dr. E. Hultzsch, [140] may refer to some Komatis. The edict contained in it was, according to Dr. Hultzsch, probably issued about 1086 A.D., and records the grant of certain honorary privileges on the descendants of a family of merchants belonging to the Teliki family.