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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



Section 7. Account of the villages of Chellur and Cateru in the 

 Rajamahendri province. 



The origin of Chellur is dated in the time of Jgasfija, Avho is said to 

 have planted a garden, and formed a tank, Avith a :>aiva IVaie, and a 

 Vah-iinava {awq ', at first called Chendlur, and in the Cali-Yuga short- 

 ened to Chellur. After the rule of the i<ings of Auodhi/a avhs finished, 

 one named Vijaya aditya ruled 48 years, and liad a sun mrni^^d Vishnu- 

 Verddhana. From him is deduced a Tuie of Chaluklya chiefs of the 

 Eajamahendri circar or province ; which, if it can be depended upon, 

 is of great value, and consequence, in an historical point of view, as to 

 this particular. 



The Chola cowiiMQsthy Kulottmiga Cholan is recognized. Afterwards 

 the J^cmana family ruled. The Reddiva: a, and other chiefs, are specified^ 



The subject does not admit of abstract : but merits full translation, as a 

 document affording bh-,torical matter, to be then judged of, by comparison 

 with others, as to value and authority. 



General Remark. As regards the condition of this book it may be 

 observed, that it was originally written in a tine intelligible hand, with 

 good ink, but unhappily on ihin country paper, which is greatly injured 

 by insects. Had the hand-writing been smaller, the whole would have 

 been irrecoverable ; as the case is a restoration has heen effected with 

 tolerable success ; yet not without omissions of words, in some places. 

 That the sense is preserved may appear from the abstract given. 



The paper on the Chalukhja kings of Rajamahdndri is valuable ; but 

 will require to be compared with section 4 of MS. No. 12, laext 

 following. The valuable labours of Walter Elliott, E-q. in fixing, from 

 inscriptions, the dates of some of the Chalukiyas, wuU, aided by these 

 two papers, and other details to come, render historical deductions 

 concerning the Rajamahendri principality comparatively easy, gnd to 

 some degree certain. 



Manuscript book, No. 12. — Countermark 702. 



Section 1. Account of Sitandam, in the district of Rajamahendri, 



Reference to Rama Chandra, who lived in privacy in the countrx^ 

 near the Godavery-river, and had his wife Sita abducted thence by 



