Groerpuy or Inpra, 379 
three pretty temples dedicated to the Gop of the Firanes, Feringies or 
French, who did not, I believe, settle there before the year 1674, He 
takes notice also of Mandarajya, or Madras, 
Tre author acts with the utmost candour, and modesty, saying, as I 
have written the Prabhoda-chandricd after the “ Pracriya-caumudé (that 
“is to say from, and after the manner of that book) so I have written this 
“ work after the Vicrama-sagara, and also from enquiries, from respect- 
“able well informed people, and froin what, I may have seen myself.” 
In the Cshétra-samasa, two other geographical tracts are mentioned : 
the first is the Dacsha-chandaca, and the other is called Dés4-valé, which, 
according to the author’s account, seem to be valuable works. There is 
also a small geopraphical treatise called Crita-dhard-vali, by RAMESwara, 
about 200 years old, it is supposed. I have only eighty leaves of it, 
and it contains some very interesting particulars. In the peninsula, there 
is a list of fifty-six countries, in high estimation among the natives. It is’ 
generally called, in the spoken dialects of India, Ch’hapana-désa or the 
fifty-six countries. It was mentioned first by Mr. Bainiy, who calls it 
Chapanna de Chalou. 'Two copies were possessed by Dr. Bucuanan, and 
I have also procured a few others. All these are most contemptible lists 
of names, badly spelt, without any explanation whatever, and they differ 
materially the one from the other. However there is really a valuable 
copy of it, in the Térd-tantra, aid published lately by the Rev. Mr. 
Warp. I have also another list of countries with proper remarks, from the 
Giélava-tantra, in which there are several most valuable hints. However 
these two lists must be used cautiously, for there are also several mistakes, 
