JOURNAL 



OF 



THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



tft>. 75.— March, 1838. 



t. — Examination and Anelysis of the Mackenzie Manuscripts depo- 

 sited in the Madras College library. By the Reverend William 



Taylor. 



[Continued from page 131.] 



Palm-leaves, No. 42, Countermark 308. 

 B :— TELUGU. 



I. — Crishna Rayer Vijayam, or the Triumph o/*Crishna Bayer. 



This book is in Telugu verse of an ornamented kind. Its ob- 

 ject is chiefly to celebrate a victory obtained over the Muhammadans, 

 and a treaty cemented by marriage with the Gaj'aputi, or king of 

 Orissa. After the victory over the Muhammadans, it was judged ex- 

 pedient also to curb the Gajapati, who was in alliance with them. 

 At first war was commenced ; but, difficulties arising by the counsel 

 and skill of Appaji, the rayer's minister of state, proposals of peace 

 from the Gajapati were brought about, and the latter offered to give his 

 daughter in marriage to the rayer. In the native manner, a parrot 

 it is said was sent to narrate to the rayer the descent and superior 

 qualities of the other raja's daughter. This office the parrot discharged 

 and the marriage was celebrated, with which the poem concludes. 



This copy of the work is written on palm-leaves decayed at the edges 

 but otherwise complete, and in good preservation. Its restoration does 

 not seem to be urgent or indeed important : the following is a fuller 

 abstract of the contents. 



The author's name is Vengaiyam sonofCALAi, who invokes his 

 gods,, and the poets of antiquity, such as Valmica and others. He 

 wrote by direction of Sri Rama given in a dream, Hari-hadi-chenna 

 Vencata-Bhu'pa'la was his patron, who instructed him to write the 

 history of Cbishna rayer. He first celebrates Vijayanagaram and the 

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