1838.] 



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ceremonialist. Except as illustrating native manners, and opinions;, 

 the section has no special value. 



Section 13. The local legend of the fane of Ranga nayaker, in the 

 Devaram feudal estate. 



A peasant struck against a stone while going on his work and fell . 

 on which being angry he was going to break the same, by which 

 means it was discovered to be an emblem of Vishnu ; and, a fane 

 being built over the stone, it became in some degree celebrated; but 

 falling into decay, at the prayer of some devotee for rain a form ap- 

 peared saying that if the shrine were honoured as it used to be, then 

 there would be rain. Nothing further is added. 



An account of Choli-mali-alagar fane in Devaram feudal estate. 



A boy of the ordinary people named Carupen was frightened and 

 chased by a spectre, which circumstance he narrated to the village 

 people ; who, recognizing the spectre to be an appearance of Alagar 

 (Fiihtu) came and saw the place, and afterwards built a fane in com- 

 memoration of that appearance. 



Section 14. Account of the fane of Kalatesvarer in Uttama-palliyam 

 of the Dindigul district, 



A person had been accustomed to go as far as Calastri on pilgrim- 

 age ; but one day a form appeared and told him it was not needful to 

 take so much pains in going so far ; that underneath a tree, pointed 

 out, there was a form of the same god, which could be there worship- 

 ped. A fane was built there, which a trader afterwards enriched by 

 a considerable donation, and it was enlarged and ornamented. 



Section 15. Account of the different fanes in the Uttaman Pallia 

 yapet district. 



It was anciently a teak forest visited by the five PandavaSj and by 

 tHem considered to be an excellent country, whence the term Uttaman, 

 signifying " excellence." There follows some other matter, concern- 

 ing Nila Candesvara fane, so evidently fabulous as not to merit much 

 attention. 



Copy of an inscription on the fane of Callastesvarer in Ultama pal- 

 liyam. 



It is dated in the reign of Mangamal of Madura, in the Cali yuga year 

 4794, and in Sal. Sac, 1415. (In the latter date there is an error, the 



