1838.] List of ancient kings and sages. 407 



Book No. 20, Countermark 774. 

 Section 1. — List of Kings in the Culi-yuga. 



A few names very defective in the three first ages. 



The Call yvga list commences with Janamejaya, and there are 

 other names, without distinction of place or country, though we know 

 some of them to have ruled in places very distant from each other. 

 Rajendra Chola is dated by an inscription in S. S. 460, Deva 

 Maha RAYERby inscription S. S, 1060, Virupachi Raier S. S. 1238, 

 Saluva Narasingha Deva Raver S. S. 1420, Vira Narasingha 

 Rayer S. S. 1391, Aurungzebe S. S. 1554, 



The list of course does not admit of being abstracted. A few dates 

 and names are written as specimens. The list may be of use to refer 

 to, in comparison with other lists ; and, as now restored from an almost 

 illegible state, will admit of easy translation. 



It is followed by another list, of which the ink is so much faded as 

 to be no longer capable of restoration. From a few names which can 

 be read it seems to be a fuller repetition ; the same names appearing to 

 occur, with now and then a name not to be here found ; but it is not 

 possible to make any thing of it, as a connected whole. 



There follows a page of more illegible writing endorsed in English, 

 as a letter ; and another half page of Pandiya kings, of no value. 



Section 2. — Account of the most ancient sages and poets ) with their 

 places and dates, in the Drdvida desam. 



This section with so promising a title is a mere cheat. It has a few 

 names of ascetics and poets, better known from other authorities, with- 

 out the promised distinction of time and place ; and being quite worth. 

 less, the copying of it was omitted. 



Section 3. — A general list of books and inscriptions. 



The list refers merely to certain parts of the papers in the Macken- 

 zie collection, supplied by the writer of the list ; and is of no perma- 

 nent consequence, there being a fuller catalogue in existence. The 

 copying was omitted. 



Section 4. — Account of Pradatta raja. 



The paper commences with a declaration ascribed to Brahma, of the 

 severe pain, and penalty, incurred by any one stealing even an atom 

 of property from a fane of Siva, which inclusive of minor matters, in- 

 volves the being sent to Yuma puram (hell), and the being sunk in a stra- 

 tum of fire. There are other details of the evils which must follow the 

 taking a bit of gold from the temple at Arunachellum ( Trinomallee ) \ 

 and of eating any thing belonging to it, more fatal than eating poison. 



