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Be-port on the Mackenzie Manuscripts^ 



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Section 17. Account of Savaccudu-ayiruad in the district of H6b» 

 hallL 



No inscriptions. Replies to enquiries (possessing a close similarity 

 to the queries transmitted by Mr. Baber to other places) do not appear 

 to offer any thing specially interesting. The account sent in is attest- 

 cd by the signature of three persons of the Sudra class. 



Section 18. Account of ancient matters relative to the Curumba" 

 fiad. 



Reference to the formation of the country by Ptirasu Rama, and 

 the introduction of the Brahmatis. These afterwards invited a king 

 from the Pandiya race, who was crowned on the s^ummit of the high- 

 est mountain in the country. Subsequent to the rule of seventeen 

 kings, each ruling twelve yeai^s, Cheruman Perumal ruled as th« 

 eighteenth, and did so for thirty-six years. He divided the countiy 

 among several persons, one of whom was the Curumha-rdja who go- 

 verned thirty-six kadams (or yojanas). The race failed, and an 

 adopted son was made chief. Bounds of the district stated. At a 

 later period, being troubled by the Mahomedans, the people emigrated 

 from the district. The English i-ule was greatly weieomed. 



Section 19. Account of the tribe of Caniym-a Pannikctr. 



In reply to an enquiry concerning their tribe they state that their 

 ancestor was a Brahman, and give a legend of mythological kind, to 

 account for the degradation of his posterity : astrological matters are 

 fiaixed up with the legend. 



General Remark.— The contents of this book, of so very varied 

 value, have had a note in passing. From the seventh section to the 

 «nd, the documents are loose papers tacked into the book, and written 

 for the greater part on so fragile a material as China paper. It was 

 therefore judged suitable to re-copy them in a more permanent man- 

 ner. Some of the documents are not without valne. They are the 

 -results of queries circulated by Mr. Baber, at the suggestion probably 

 of Col. Mackenzie ; as is rendered very probable among other reasons, 

 by the first enquiry always being respecting inscriptions j and it would 

 appear that in Malay alam there must be a ijreater paucity of inscrip- 

 tionS| than in other parts of India. 



