1838. J Mahratta. 519 



the inmates killed, and the house set on fire. On the captain making 

 the demand of his appearance at the court to plead, he went inside and 

 shut the door, but losing- heart to transact all the tragedy, it was ma- 

 naged in part by a servant. The result was the murder of all the inmates 

 Peddana included. The door was then thrown open. The officer 

 grieved went away, and left the disposing of the bodies with Bangaru 

 Yasama and Subrahmantan ; who, as they passed, spat on them, and 

 had them carried out heels uppermost as dogs are carried, and then not 

 buried, but merely covered with a little earth, exposed to beasts and 

 birds. The Chittur court had an examination of the outdoor servants 

 but no guilt attached to them. The manuscript leaves off without any 

 mention of the death of Shbrahmanyan which is otherwise known to 

 have since occurred by a cancer on his back slowly and with extreme 

 torture. Bangaru Yasama is said to be still alive 



Remark. — The preceding abstract is not much more than an index. 

 A translation of the entire manuscript may be made by me another 

 -time. A notice of the manuscript is entered in the Des. Catal. Vol, I. 

 p. 306. It is more than usually correct as far as it goes, and will be 

 found in most of the leading points to harmonize with the foregoing 

 outline. 



D. MAHRATTA. 



1. A roll of country paper, without title, mark or number. 



The contents of this roll consist of copies of three letters addressed 

 by Ragu Natha Yadava to Nana Farnis relative to a disputed suc- 

 cession to the throne at Poonah. In answer to communications from 

 Nana Farnip, (the minister of state,) his correspondent Ragonauth 

 gives him details of the strength and munitions of the subordinate rajas 

 and chiefs, the Nagpore raja, and the Guicovar, or raja of Gujerat, 

 being among the number. Various details are added as to battles, and 

 connected circumstances. The letters are written in the midst of the 

 circumstances which they describe ; and might be of use to a historian 

 engaged in narrating the events of that particular period, comparatively 

 recent, but they are too minute, and local, to admit of abstract, which 

 besides does not appear needful, since a brief index pointing to the ex- 

 istence of such correspondence may here very well suffice. 



The roll attracted attention from its decayed and injured condition. 

 A little trouble being sufficient to put it into a permanent form it was 

 restored ; for papers of such a sort may acquire an additional value 

 with time. 



2. Another roll, a little larger in size was found on examination to 

 have been filled with statistical details, concerning the boundaries, pro- 



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