122 Architectural Remains. [No. 11, new series. 



A considerable portion of the roof has fallen in— and so have 

 many of the mud walls. 



Up to a month ago it had been used as the Tahsildar's 

 Kacheri — but has been abandoned as unsafe. It is not worth 

 preserving. 



Rock Inscrptions. 



48. I have met with but one, near Anamalai : it is cut in a flat 

 rock, which, up to the time of my seeing it, had been used by the 

 villagers to beat out grain upon. 



49. It is in old Tamil, and to the effect that, a certain quantity 

 of land had been granted for the support of the Anamalai Temple ; 

 and pronouncing anathemas against any one who should deprive 

 the Temple of those lands. The Temple was demolished by 

 Tippu, who I suppose by appropriating the lands earned the ana* 

 thema in full. 



By beating grain upon it a portion of the inscription has been 

 destroyed. 



I directed a low wall to be built around it. 



Manuscripts. 



50. This is a most interesting subject to the antiquarian and 

 one to which, so far as I am aware, very little attention has been 

 paid in this country : almost every Temple, town and river, has 

 its Puranam ; and although they contain a very large proportion 

 of fable, they have facts enough to make them worth collecting. 



51. I have received, as yet, but two ; one only, have I been 

 able to get copied : it is the song or story of Anamalai. 



52. I have been promised seven or eight more, and if the 

 Chief Engineer considers them of much interest, I will have them 

 copied and translated for the next Antiquarian Report. 



District Engineer's Office, \ 



COIMBATORE, | (Sd.) Wm. FeASER, C. E., 



21s* December, 1859. J District Engineer, Coimbatorc. 



Order thereon, 19th April 1860, No. 803. 

 With this letter the Chief Engineer submits in pursuance of the 

 Order of the 3rd June 1857. No. 1,060, the reports furnished by 



