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one night. They apply the same gruel on the second side likewise. The sheets are rubbed with conch and smooth stone perhaps to make the surface smooth. Three quires of paper sheets are daily manufactured. They are cut into size. These papers were exported to Bandar, Challapalli, Guntur, Amaravati, Palnadu, Vinukonda, Narasaraopet, Kadakuduru and other places.
D. OTHER POINTS
1. Sarpavaidya (physician for serpent bite) is mentioned in Appapuram Kaifiyat (Bapatla-I) Vogeți Bucchaiah a sarpāvaidya was granted some inam in the village.
2. Another Sarpavaidya, Aluri Ramaswami was granted inam in Returu (Bapatla-35)
3. Certain Kondaraju of Kaunḍinya gotra, Yajus-Sakha and Aruvela Niyogi sect who was given the Karinikam mirasi of Nadimipalli (Repalle-4) is stated in the that Kaifiyat to have been an ancestor of the famous Telugu poet Bammera Potana, the author of Andhra Mahabhagavata. In the genealogy known from Potana's works the name Konḍarāju does not appear, though other details agree. Only seven generations of Potana's ancestors are known from his work 'Virabhadra Vijayam'. He flourished in the latter half of the 15th century A. D., and this Konḍarāju is stated in the Kaifiyat to have obtained the Karinikam-mirasi in about A. D. 1145.
