1838.] 



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searched for a second copy, without succeeding in finding one. This 

 copy is much injured by insects. I shall be gratified if eventually I 

 may succeed in effecting one completely restored copy. 



B.-^TELUGU. 



1. Crishna-rayer Vijayam, or the triumph of Crishna-rayer. 

 Palm-leaves, No. 42.-.Countermark 308. 



This book is in Telugu verse, of an ornamental kind. Its object is 

 chiefly to celebrate a victory obtained over the Mahomedans and a 

 treaty cemented by marriage with the Gajapati, or king of O^-ma. After 

 the victory over the Mahomedans, it was judged expedient also to curb 

 the Gajapati, who was in alliance with them. At first war was com- 

 menced ; but difficulties arising, by the counsel and skill of Jppaji, the 

 layer's minister of state, proposals of peace from the Gajapati were 

 brought about, and the latter offered to give his daughter m marriage to 

 the '^ayer. In the native manner, a parrot, it is said was sent to narrate 

 to the Rayer the descent and superior qualities of the other rajahs 

 daughter. This office the parrot discharged and the marriage v;as 

 celebrated, with which the poem concludes. 



This copy of the work is written on palm leaves decayed at the 

 edges, but otherwise complete, and in good preservation. Its resto- 

 ration does not seem to be urgent, or indeed important j the following 

 is a fuller abstract of the contents. 



The authors' name is Vengaiyan, son of Calai, who invokes his 

 gods, and the poets of antiquity, such as Valmica and others. He 

 wrote by direction of Sri Rama given in a dream. Hari-hadi-chenna 

 Vencata Bupala was his patron, who instructed him to write the his- 

 tory of Crishna-rayer, He first celebrates Vijayanagaram and the 

 praises of N arasinga-rayer (father of Crishna-rayer)— states that 

 iVam5m^a-r«2/er demanded of him an account of the primitive state 

 of the Vidyaranya (site of Vijayaaogaram) and of the worship of 

 Virupacshi (a form of si^a) and of the proceedings of Vidyaranalu 

 (a sage) before the town was built. These are narrated to the fol- 

 lowing purport. 



Isvaren assumed the form of Fidyaranalu, afterwards called San* 

 carachavya j he demanded and received from Lacshmt the privilege of 

 having a town built in that wilderness bearing his name, where she 



