Narsimma: Dora, you know how Papi Reddy Patel takes sides.
Papi Reddy: Narsiga, how dare you accuse a panch?
Yellaiah: Dora, please pardon me and bless the children.
Reddy: Wah Yelliga wah. Blessing the runaways, what a precedent it sets.
Yellaiah: [Bows his head in silence]
Muthyal Rao: Yera Yelliga, why abet your son, don’t you know elopement is a crime in Rampur?
Yellaiah: Hahn dora,but Anasuya is the cause of it.
Yadagiri: Hahn dora.
Maisamma: Dora, bless the children and may God bless you.
Muthyal Rao: Maisamma, sadly it’s all too late now. Had any of you brought the issue before the panchayat, we would’ve addressed it suitably.
Narsimma: Is it so dora?
Muthyal Rao: Well, now that the crime is committed, it’s the punishment time. What the panch have to say?
Papa Rao: What’s there to disagree dora.
Papi Reddy: Dora, we might note that Yellaiah’s family members are habitual offenders.
Shaukar Suryam: Well, didn’t Mallamma attack Papi Reddy Patel in the panchayat itself. If not for that stroke of luck and for lack of a sickle, God knows where he would’ve been now.
Muthyal Rao: It’s five lashes each to Narsigadu and Yelligadu, and two to Sarakka.
Renuka: Why leave me out dora. Let me also share their fate.
Muthyal Rao: What makes you think you’re let off scot-free; your turn would come any way.
[Taking cue from Muthyal Rao, his henchman was about to lash at Narasimma. Even before Narsimma could take the blow, Renuka rushes to him and takes it herself. While other henchman holds Renuka, Narsimma, Yellaiah and Sarakka are whipped as directed.]
Muthyal Rao: As Renuka tried to elope with Narsigadu, the panchayatprohibits her from marrying him.
Papi Reddy: And for having shamed Saailu, she should be his slavish wife.
Renuka: Dora, is not history repeating itself. Don’t you see Papi Reddy Patel hijacking the panchayatall again.
[Instinctively Papi Reddy gets into a protective posture.]
Narsimma: And yet dorasays we should’ve approached the panchayat.
Anasuya: See his audacity dora. I’m afraid he may frisk her away before the wedding.
Muthyal Rao: When is that?
Anasuya: It’s day after tomorrow dora.
Muthyal Rao: Then, till Renuka’s marriage is performed, Yelligadu and his children may be confined in the banduldoddi.
Rami Reddy:Dora, with strayed cattle for company?
Muthyal Rao: So be it Patwari. Won’t that serve as a lesson for the others?
[Exit: Yellaiah, Narsimma and Sarakka led away by the henchmen.]
Maisamma: [As she exits.] Oh, if only Mallamma were alive.