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shot. In the fort the Brahman busied himself with magnifying the 

 anger of Eckoji concerning arrears unpaid ; and, on the intelligence 

 of EchojVs troops being in motion, the panic was wrought up to such a 

 pitch, that the young man fled,and thought himself happy in receiving, 

 from the poligar-chief of Ariyalur, assurances of hospitality and pro- 

 tection. Eckoji entered the fort without opposition ; and from that 

 time downwards his descendants ruled. Their names are mentioned. 

 The names of the children of Chenga mala dasa, and some of their 

 marriage connections are added. They received fiefs first from Choka 

 nather ; and, at a later time, when Trichinopoly had been taken by the 

 Mysoreans, these also extended protection to them. During the time 

 of Tippu Sultan, the king of Candi sent for some of the existing de- 

 pendents, married them to his relatives, and gave them fiefs in Ceylon. 

 At the time when the manuscript was written, a descendant of Vijaya 

 Raghava was living in the village close by the fane of Jambhukesvara. 

 With the mention of this circumstance, and the statement that such is 

 a full account of Tanjore, the manuscript ends. 



REMARK.—This manuscript is in a very good state of preservation j 

 and by consequence does not need to be restored. It is historical and 

 valuable. The opening portion very clearly connects the close of the 

 Chola dynasty with the commencement of the Rayer's acquisition of 

 that country ; and fixes the time to the reign of Achyuta rayer. This 

 is an important point gained ; and one which I had not before met with. 

 The native line of viceroys from Vijayanagara, become princes by the 

 fall of that capital, is another acquisition. The other events confirm, 

 or explain, the statements contained in the Telugu manuscript, trans- 

 lated and published in the 2d vol. of Oriental Manuscripts ; with some 

 variations, as must always be expected in two distinct, and independent, 

 narratives of the same events. On the whole I consider this document 

 very valuable, as a contribution towards the history of the Tanjore 

 country, during the whole of the 15th and 16 th centuries ; and as such 

 I strongly recommend its full translation. 



Professor Wilson has entered this manuscript in his Descriptive 

 Catalogue, Vol. I, p. 310, Art. xiii. He mentions two copies ; but I 

 have only met with one,* and that one is complete. The notice of the 

 contents which is given in the Catalogue, is entirely wrong; and, if it 

 do not proceed from a mistake in having classed together two different 

 works as two copies merely of the same work, the error is otherwise 

 unaccountable. With the title of Tanjavur raja Cheritra, the notice 



* See the following article, 



