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earth, as a punishment for his having forcibly taken from 

 the ssigeCkadaimuni some chevvanti flowers, which the latter 

 had reared for offering at the shrine of Siva at Trichinopoly, 



17. Vickuva Purdnam. 

 Legends of Vickuva Karma, the Hindu Vulcan. 



18. Chittira Purdnam. 



Legends of Ckitragupta, the Register of Tama, the god 

 of death. 



19. Valhyamman Purdnam. 

 A poem treating of the loves and marriage of Skanda 

 with Valli, who was brought up by the Vedas in the wood. 



20. Virachmkdtana Purdnam. 



A poem treating of the legend of Ckdranka Tevar, of 

 Kumpakonam : by Velaiya Chuvdmi. 



The following poems, from No. 21 to 41, are styled 

 Stkalla Purdnas, as they have for their subjects chiefly 

 the origin and sanctity of the different stalams, or places of 

 Hindu worship in India. Mr. Ellis, in his tract on Mirasi 

 Rights, speaking of these poems, observes that "after 

 passing the fables of mythological periods, with which they 

 usually commence, and gaining the bounds of rational 

 chronology, they contain much of what may be considered 

 as the real history of the country, though still obscured 

 occasionally by allegory and distorted by extravagance," 



21. Arundchala Purdnam. 

 A poem in 12 cantos, comprising 586 stanzas, Treats of 

 the shrine of Siva at Arundchalam, or Tiruvannamalai, in 

 the Carnatic, where, when Brahma and Viskiiu contended for 

 superiority, he is said to have sprung up before them in the 

 form of a fiery pillar, entirely passing through all worlds, 

 and told them that whoever succeeded in finding his summit 

 or base should be the greatest, which neither of them was 



