2 Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. [Jan* 



2. Adi-parvarn, No. 2. — Countermark 162. 



This copy is complete at the beginning, and down to the 208th palm 

 leaf : the remainder is wanting. It is a comparatively recent copy; but 

 the leaves are perforated by insects in several places ; so as occasionally 

 to destroy some letters, but not so as to destroy legibility. 



3, Adi-parvam, No. 3. — Countermark 163. 



This copy wants the 1st leaf, it is then right down to the 22d leaf ; 

 deficient afterwards to the I90th and thence to 114th; right afterwards 

 to the 144th : so far very old. A more recent hand writing follows, 

 beginning with the 185th leaf; right thence to 188. No. 189 is want- 

 ing. From 190 to 214 is right ; defecti\^e to 217; right thence to 227. 

 No, 228 is wanting : thence right to 226, defective to 242, right thence 

 to 245, and defective to 254. The remainder complete down to 288, 

 the end. 



This manuscript is very old. The former portion more so than the 

 other, v.'hich is in a different hand writing. It is slso dam-r^ged ; not so 

 much by insects, as by the wear and breaking of the leaves by decay. 



4. Adi-parvam, No. 4. — Countermark 1 64. 



Of the eight asrasams (or sections) into which this parvam (or book) 

 is divided, there are in this copy the 5lh, 6th, 7th and 8th : there are 

 nine leaves wanting from the beginning of the 5th: the other sections 

 specified are complete. The leaves were not numbered: causing so 

 much the more trouble in the examination : the Nos. of the pages 

 have been inserted ; and the contents compared with another copy, not 

 belonging to this collection. 



This MS. (No. 4) is but lately written ; both palm-leaves and hand 

 writing being quite recent in appearance. \ 



5. Sah'ha parvam^ or the second book of the Bharatam, No. 5.— 

 Countermark 265. 



