362 Report 07i the Mackenzie Manuscripts. [ApRit. 



entirely relates to the viceroys or princes of Madura ; of which the ac^ 

 count given is correct, as far as it proceeds, and must necessarily have 

 been deduced from Sv'^me other authority : but it is entirely incorrect 

 as any exhibition of the contents of this manuscript. I am however 

 too sensible of the difficulties attending these researches to consider 

 the error as any otherwise than unintentional ; and, if the native 

 assistants of Colonel Mackenzie gave to Prof. Wilson so false a repre- 

 sentation of the contents of this manuscript (being moreover Telugu 

 Brahmans by birth) they alone are inexcusable. I had made my own 

 abstract, before seeking out the document in the Catalogue, and com- 

 paring the two notices. 



4. Ta7ijavur Charitrttf or an account of Tanjore— No. 121. Coun* 

 termark 316. 



The above is the English title on the cover ; and a Telugu title, on 

 the other cover , is Tanjdviir rdjalu purvottaram, or an ancient record 

 of the kings of Tanjore. Both these titles are wrong. On a palm leaf 

 inside, the book is entitled " an ornamented poetical account of the 

 four gates of the fort of Tanjore." This title fully and accurately 

 describes the contents. It contains merely exaggerated descriptions 

 of the four gates, with such inventions, connected therewith, as are 

 natural to the imagination of a native poet. By consequence, what- 

 ever may be its value as a poem, it is worthless in any historical point 

 of view. There is a very slight deficiency at the end of the first sec- 

 tion, (on the first gate) apparently of a few stanzas : for the rest the; 

 manuscript is complete; and though old, yet is in tolerable good pre 

 servation. At the end there is a short poem appended, containin 

 praises of Vishnu ; so much may suflSce for this book. 



Note. —I do not find this manuscript entered in the Descriptiv 

 Catalogue, as a distinct v/ork ; and therefore conjecture, that it mus 

 have been classed, by mistake, as the duplicate copy of the precedin 

 manuscript. Indeed I have scarcely any doubt to the contrary. 



5. Mdliyadri Narasimha Chandasu (or a treatise on prosody dedi 

 cated to Maliyadri Narasimha a form of Vishnu) No. 94, Countermark 

 487. 



This work which attracted my attention from having the word Cha* 

 ritra or history (erroneously written in English letters for Chandasu) 



