320 



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but is in extremely good preservation. It is ^):-irt of n vnsion by T/Vi- 

 puttur-dluvdr, and is commonly termed Jluviir pddal ; vMt h version is 

 esteemed the best of three others by H hula poets. 'J he inferior ver- 

 sions are by yo/a-p/l/ai, and by Ifangfia-iidfhap'iluvan, This copy, 

 it is scarcely necessary to add, is in elegant Tamil verse. 



12, Yudtilia-pai va, No. •! 9— Countermark 6. 



This manuscript contains the \vhole of the above mentioned section 

 of the ^//^fra/ar, in an inferior kind of versification, by an obscure or 

 unknown author. It is supposed to be part of ii version made by some 

 one of the Porta tribe, who are reported to have such a version among 

 themselves. 



One-half only of the book contains the said section. The oiher half 

 is a portion of some work on modiciue, by whom written is unknown. 

 It is not complete either at the hef^inninr^, or end ; and is damaged, by 

 the edges of some leaves being broken ofl". 



Note. — Six portions of the Maliabliarata are entered in the Des. 

 Cat. vol. 1, p. 16.'), art. vii. I do not find more than four MSS. now re- 

 maining. 



12. Ilanumania'paltu a chant in praise of IJarnimw), No. 204 — Coun- 

 termark 182. 



This is a book, very small in size, and brief as to contents. It con- 

 tains ten stanzas, as a eulogy of Hamiman, for the. assistance rendered 

 to in the war against Zawc«. The eight diminutive leaves on 

 which the hook is written are much damaged by insects. 



There is an appendix of eight similar leaves, of which only four are 

 written on ; the contents being an unfinished poem in praise of a local 

 goddess, termed Periya-noyald-amman, in good preservation. 



It is entered in Des. Cat. vol. i. p. 228, art. lii. 



13. Trincomalee iS'^'/?«/ajK>2«'a;^«w, or legend of the fane at Tvinco- 

 malee Nos. 1/ and 18. — Countermark, '25 and 26. 



It is termed ArndcheUa puranam in the manuscripts. 



