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in these papers. There is also a very loose paragraph of no weight, as 

 to what the writer had heard of the Mahrattas, and Muhammadans, irt 

 the Peninsula. It states that the Bayer ruled 500 years before the 

 Muhammadans, the Velhdas for 700 years before the Rayer. Three 

 hundred years preceding are not filled up with any name ; and antece- 

 dently to that period the Sera, Chola, Pdndiya kings, and the Chacra- 

 vertis ruled. 



This is not a well written paper. Its only use seems to be to explain 

 who was Sila Nayaken before referred to (Section 8) ; and to shew 

 how ruthless human nature can sometimes be, under particular circum- 

 stances. 



Section 14. — Account of Tirupanang Kddu in the district of 



Tiruvatur. 

 Reference to the marriage of Siva and Parvati, on Cuilasa. The 

 assembly of rishis, and others, among them Agastya and Pulasthya ; 

 at which time the earth was irregular in height, and Agastya received 

 an order to go and make the earth equal, or level. A promise, that 

 Siva would appear to him by the way, was accomplished at this place, 

 called Tirupcnang Kddu, as being situated in the Daudxdrunya, 

 abounding with Puuna (i. e. palmyra) trees. At a subsequent period 

 three celebrated poets named Suntarer, Appar, and Sampautar 

 came to Tiruimtar, and sung the praises of that place. A little to the 

 south of Tiruvatur, at Tirupanang Kudu, the god appeared to them 

 in the guise of an old man — struck the ground with his sulam, pro- 

 ducing water — and provided food. Subsequently a Chola king who 

 had incurred the guilt of killing a brahman came this way, and to re- 

 move that guilt, seeing the place without a fane, he built a double shrine 

 for the god and goddess, with the usual accompaniments and grants, 

 recorded by inscriptions. After the Chola kings had passed away, one 

 named Tamala-varee built a large mantopa (porch) in front of the 

 shrine with a mud fort around. Subsequently some district chieftains 

 turned this fortification into a stronghold, and put troops therein. In 

 the time of Anaverdha Khan, nabob of Arcot, 500 Mahrattas came 

 by treaty and treacherously took the fort, killing Mu'rti-Nayaken its 

 commander, and rasing it to the ground. The families of people for 

 ten miles round, through fear of the Mahratta cavalry, had taken re- 

 fuge in the fort ; many of these the Mahrattas killed, while some 

 escaped wounded. The shrine was plundered, and its service ceased. 

 In the time of Rdyaji the ruler of Arcot, a wealthy man from Madras 

 made some endowments. In the great Muhammadan troubles worship 



