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mortals I ever knew. A near relation of Kattabomma Nayaka, who was both deaf and
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were retreating, pursued by our cavalry, poor Umai fell covered with wounds, near a
small village, about three miles from Panchalamkurichi. As soon as our troops had
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consequently set out with great glee, somewhat late in the evening; and in the
meantime an appearance of quiet induced some women of the village to proceed to
the field of carnage, in the hope of finding some of the sufferers capable of receiving
succour. Amongst the heaps of slain, they discovered the son of one of the party still
breathing, and after weeping over him they began to raise him up, when exerting his
little remaining strength, he exclaimed, "O! Mother, let me die, but try to save the life
of Swamy, who lies wounded near me.' The word he used fully justifies my assertion
of their adoration, as its literal meaning is a deity. The woman, animated by the same
feelings, immediately obeyed her dying son, and speedily found Umai weltering in his
blood, but still alive; and these extraordinary matrons immediately lifted and carried
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