1838.] Account of the Chola-r&jas* 507 



been classed by mistake as the duplicate copy of the preceding manu- 

 script. Indeed I have scarcely any doubt to the contrary. 



5. — Malty adri Narasimha Chandasu, (or a Treatise on Prosody, dedi- 

 cated to Maliyadri Narasimha, a form of Vishnu,) No. 94. Conn' 

 termark 487. 



This work which attracted my attention from having the word Cha- 

 ritra, or history, (erroneously written in English letters for Chandasu) 

 on the cover, is by Kavi-Kethani, and treats on the art of Telugu 

 poetry ; giving the laws that should guide the construction of the differ- 

 ent kinds of metre. It is of some length, in a beautiful hand-writing? 

 and in good preservation. The poem is valuable, on the subject to 

 which it refers ; but does not bear on the leading object of this inves- 

 tigation. 



The work is briefly entered in the Descriptive Catalogue, Vol. I. p. 

 353, as a "Treatise on Telugu prosody, by Lingaya Mantri of 

 Veylatur." This name probably designates the author's patron. 



Manuscript Book, No. 33. Countermark 787. 

 Section 1. — An account of the Chola-rajas. 

 Vayal Varzi Aditta Cholan was crowned at 16 years of age at 

 Caliyur, west of Trichinopoly . He confided the government to a 

 minister, and occupied himself in the worship of Siva. He fostered 

 the Saiva religion. A wild elephant greatly troubled the country. A 

 hundred men were sent to take it ; and the elephant, being pursued, 

 met in the way an ascetic, bearing a garland of flowers sacred to Siva, 

 which it seized and tore : the ascetic greatly incensed killed the 100 

 men, with an axe which he carried, and also the elephant. The Chola 

 king, hearing of the circumstance set out with a force to destroy the 

 adversary; but on coming near, and seeing only a devotee of Siva, he 

 kept his followers at a distance, and alone approached : he addressed 

 the ascetic in terms of great humility. The ascetic was so overcome 

 with sorrow at having killed the elephant and people of so devoted a 

 follower of Siva, that he took the king's sword to kill himself, which 

 the king prevented ; and a dispute ensued, which should kill himself. 

 The king because his people and elephant had offended so devoted a 

 votary of Siva, or the ascetic, because he had killed the elephant 

 and people of so exemplary a king. As a child was born to the king 

 on that propitious day fSuba-dinaJ the child was called Suba-cholan 

 who being installed by the care of his father, the latter died after ruling 

 350 years. Suba-cholan married and came to live dXJambhu kesva- 



