( 1 ) BOTH Kondadu and Chitti ayyababu were farmers. Inter-marriages were a rule among such families. Chitti ayyababu married Kondadu s sister atchamma. Kondadu married Chitti ayyababu s daughter Narasamma. Kondadu begot two sons by Narasamma. They are, padda Ayyababu and Chinna Ayyababu and one daughter Syamalamma. Chitti Ayyababu got a son by name Brahma Demudu. Brahma demudu married Kondadu s daughter syamalamma. Out of this marital alliance, brahma Demudu got a daughter by name gangamma who was married to Kondadu s first son, Pedda Ayyababu. Kondadu s second son alone married, Arjanamma, outside this closed circle of family relatives.

( 2 ) AFTER his marriage, Kondadu moved into his father-in-law Chitti Ayyababu s family. Both families worked together, but do not seem to have added much to their wealth. A farmer s life was specially hard in those days. So long Chitti Ayyababu was alive, he managed with the little extents of properties belonging to his family and that of Kondadu. After his death, Kondadu took over the management looked after his estate and that of his brother-in-law, Brahma Demudu. Tradition was still virile then that such management of agricultural properties b

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