1838.] Purasu Rami Vijuya, 497 



employed by them were of the Tamil country and the head inspectors 

 were Cauras (a class of TeluguJ people. Both were afterwards re- 

 moved to make way for the Niyogi brahmans. This was in Sal. Sac. 

 121 0. Subsequently six generations of the Reddivaru ruled, during 

 one hundred years down to Sal. Sac. 1310. There follow some details 

 in which the concerns of the rayer dynasty and affairs of the Gajupati, 

 Mukanthi, and Muhammedan rulers, are much interwoven. The ac- 

 count comes down to the grandson of Alum Shah, named Ahmed 

 Shah, Sal. Sec. 1672, (A. D. 1750,) after which period and down 

 to Sal. Sac. 1720, (A. D. 1798,) it professes ignorance. 



Remark, — This manuscript of nine large-sized palm leaves fully 

 written is, for its size, respectable There seem to be some anachro- 

 nisms, and an occasional inversion of the order in which the rulers men- 

 tioned governed ; and it is quite evident that too long periods are given 

 to individuals, especially at the commencement ; but these periods are 

 not always to be understood as wholly occupied by the individual men- 

 tioned. He may be the head of a race, or the only person of any note 

 during that period ; and sometimes such authors, as the present one 

 must be understood as doing the best they can. Upon the whole this 

 manuscript might deserve full translation ; the requisite checks and 

 comparisons to be supplied by annotation. The book is complete and 

 in tolerably good preservation : insects have begun to attack it ; but as 

 it will require to come under notice again, its restoration has been for 

 the present postponed. 



2. — Parasu Rama Vijaya, or the Triumph ©/"Parasu Rama, No. 84, 

 Countermark 388. 

 Vyja'sa and Valmica, being in the celestial world (or Sverga-loca), 

 narrate to Indra the events which occurred in the Treta yuga, or 

 second age of the world ; to the following purport. The chacra, or 

 missile weapon of Vishnu disputed w r ith its holder, telling him that by 

 means of itself (the chacra) Vishnu had gained his victories, over 

 the asuras and others. In consequence of this presumption Vishnu 

 condemned the chacra to be born on earth. Accordingly the chacra 

 came into the world as the child of Krita Viriya, but without either 

 legs or arms. The astrologers, being consulted, recommended the 

 monster's being abandoned, and exposed in the woods, or waste places. 

 Being so exposed, Athiseshan fed it with poison, considering the 

 case to be desperate, as if not nourished it must die ; and the case could 

 "be no worse if poison failed of yielding nourishment. The child surviv- 

 ed, and the serpent carried it to a fane of Siva, and left it there ; af- 



