1838.] 



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As this short paper was translated and printed at the end of the ap- 

 pendix to vol. 2, of Oriental Historical MSS. any more lengthened no- 

 tice, than the above is not required. The original text was not then 

 given, and as the writing of the document was rapidly fading, it appear- 

 ed suitable to have it restored, and available at any time for reference, 

 as a record. 



Manuscript book No. 31.— Countermark 7^5. 



Section I.— Account of Tirumala Nayadu, and of his descendants the 

 Carndlaca rulers of Madura. 



This manuscript was also translated and printed in the second vol. 

 Or. Hist. MSS., beginning at page 182. Hence there is need only to ob- 

 serve in brief, that it commences with the accession of the son of Tiru- 

 mala Nay aker to the throne at Madura, and brings the account down- 

 wards, with a somewhat minute specification of wars, negociations and 

 changes of power, to the period of the last feeble remains of the race, 

 who received a village for their maintenance. In some of the details, 

 where most obscure, this manuscript is confirmed and elucidated by 

 the large Tamil manuscript before mentioned, the Carnal aca-rajakal. 

 At the time of making the above translation, this Telugu MS. was not 

 without difRculty legible ; a rough copy of it was then made for 

 greater convenience, and as the lapse of two years since has only ad- 

 ded to the difficulty of reading the original, a restored copy has been 

 prepared from the original, aided by occasional reference to the rough 

 copy ; and, the text not having been printed, a correct record for refer- 

 ence is thus provided. 



Section 2.— An account of the rule of Cari Cdla Cholan. 



In consequence of war with the Pandiya king, a woman of the Chola 

 royal race, named Cungama Gent' hi, escaped alone into the wilderness, 

 being pregnant ; and took up her abode in the house of a Brahman, a 

 schoolmaster, and also an astrologer. By his art he declared concern- 

 ing the child, after casting its nativity, that it w^ould become a power- 

 ful and independent prince. In the ceremony of naming the child it 

 ys'SiS called Cali-chjlan. After the ceremony of investing wdth the sa- 

 cred thread, and while learning in the school, the boy was the object of 

 much contempt from the other boys, being treated as the son of a widow. 

 He retaliated on them ; but the Brahman thought it best to keep him 



