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fane to Vira-bhadra, the titular numen of his tribe. Still later the town, 

 and district, came under the government of Tippu ; when its name was 

 changed to Hossein-pur. 

 Note. — The document is in sufficiently good presei*vation. 



Section 8. Account of Vttala-pur, 



A reference to Magada-desam^ and the mention of a few names and 

 incidents, when the document abruptly breaks off, without the promised 

 account of Vitdla-pur, which it may be conjectured, was to arise out of 

 it. That Magada-desam (not Mdgadha) was above the ghauts, in the 

 province now called Bidanur, is a little point of geographical information, 

 helping towards an explanation of the fifty-six countries of the Hindu- 

 purunas. 



Section 9. Account of Nanda-ram, an aged man of the Rajputra caste 

 at the village of Tanchar in Bidanur, 



He wasoriginally of J^OMc?;^i^M;r;his family being gold and silver smiths. 

 He followed the army of a Padshah, as a sutler; supplying pease and 

 wheat, for horses, and men. He afterwards became employed by Hyder 

 Ali, and was sent to Masulipatam. Some mention of Hyder Ali's rela- 

 tions is added. 



Note. — It is difficult to say what could have led to suppose a biography 

 of such a person to be of any consequence. It seems to be of no value* 



D.~SANSCRIT. 



A Palm-leaf Manuscript, without label or number. 



This very old, and greatly damaged, MS. on examination was fouiad 

 to be a fragment of a Sanscrit work in the GranVha character, composed 

 by Bava Bhupati^ one of the poets of Bhoja-raja^s court. The leaves 

 are eaten, in many places, by insects, others are lost : two sections, and 

 part of a third, are found. The subject is of no historical consequence ; 

 and, as far as can be ascertained, contains merely poetical panegyric, as a 

 sort of epithalamium. 



