Mopern ImitvaTion or THE Vedas, &c. 97 
 Bédo refutation de ce qui a esté dit'au sujet des eprenves”*—* iti 
“ Zor. Kor. Béd. noro krite porikia ‘barono bibeko—42 livre. 
| 9 oo 66 Bin de L?Esour Védam,”? 
M66 Tarsus, 2S YOIVUOT Maniac co Soy Ss JOSEPH.” 
Now 7: 
‘Tae manuscript next to “be noticed is in large quarto or small’ folid, 
bound in’ parchinent: Lit is written int the same hand as the rest, but 
fairer and has fewer corrections:“it is: ibs damaged and apparently not 
so old as the one last’ noticed’—On the back of the first leaf, the title is 
thus written: “1° Live Rik: Védam,”?* and the translation is headed 
s Rik’ Béde~ Otpo Béd.?” This manuscript. which: is probably the 
largest’ of the whole, though it‘ does not greatly exceed some of. tlie 
others, contains eight sections: of* nine” slieets” each,;. or, 283° pages s 
each page contains- about’ 5G limes» of sixteen. syllables each, being: 
the half: stanza of. the: Anushiwp or Sloea Vrtitam, and, consequently, . 
the whole-work consists of 19,128 lines.or 8,06 4stanzas. At the end of 
this manuscript are*two dates ona‘slip of paper, on which the concluds- 
ing lines of the translation ave written; oie is $* Aanée 1732, the other 
6 Année F751,2 This work professes to-be an Upa Véda of the Rig Veda, 
it commences. as follows: “*Nanabo n’etant entierement point satisfait 
© de ce qu’il -venait @entendre au sujet-de la creation chercha a proposer 
ss de nouveau. ses doules a Porrouapo et luidit:: N. J?ay enienda seig- 
* 'Tuys,title, which isin the Tamil language and. character, is correctly spelt, according to the 
orthography of that language Iruccu Védam. 
