1838. "I Carndtaca rulers of Madura. 177 



ruler of Madura. The transmission of the authority downwar Is with 

 dates and names, and mention of connected events is continued to Sal. 

 Sac. 1716, (A. D. 1795.) 



As this short paper was translated and printed at the end of the 

 appendix to Vol. 2 of Oriental Historical MSS. any more lengthened 

 notice than the above, is not required. The original text was not then 

 given ; and as the writing of the document was rapidly fading it appeared 

 suitable to have it restored, and available at any time for reference as a 

 record. 



Manuscript Book, No. 31, Countermark 785. 



Section 1. — Account ofTi rum al a N ay adu and of his descendants^ 

 the Carndtaca rulers of Madura. 



This manuscript was also translated and printed in the second volume 

 Or. Hist. MSS. beginning at page 182. Hence there is need only to 

 observe in brief, that it commences with the accession of the son of 

 Tirumala Nayaker to the throne at Madura, and brings the account 

 downwards, with a somewhat minute specification of wars, negociations 

 and changes of power, to the period of the last feeble remains of the 

 race, who received a village for their maintenance. In some of the 

 details, where most obscure, this manuscript is confirmed and elucidated 

 bv the large Tamil manuscript before mentioned, the Carndtaca rdfdkal m 

 At the time of making the above translation, this Telugu MS. was not 

 without difficulty legible ; a rough copy of it was then made for greater 

 convenience, and as the lapse of two years since has only added to the 

 difficulty of reading the original, a restored copy has been prepared from 

 the original aided by occasional reference to the rough copy, and the 

 text not having been printed a correct record for reference is thus pro- 

 vided. 



Section 2. — An account of the rule o/^Cari Cala Cholan. 

 In consequence of war with the Pandya king, a woman of the Chola 

 royal race named Cungaina Gent'hi escaped alone into the wilderness, 

 being pregnant ; and took up her abode in the house of a brahman a 

 schoolmaster, and also an astrologer. By his art he declared concerning 

 the child, after casting its nativity, that it would become a powerful and 

 independent prince. In the ceremony of naming the child it was called 

 Cali Cholan. After the ceremony of investing with the sacred thread, 

 and while learning in the school, the boy was the object of much con- 

 tempt from the other boys, being treated as the son of a widow. He 

 retaliated on them ; but the brahman thought it best to keep him within 

 the house. He, became well instructed in knowledge and very powerful 



