1839.] 



Repcri on the Maekenz'e Manuscripts. 



325 



?mong celestials are specified, as removed at this shrine. Amonc^ them. 

 Chandra (or the moori) committed a fault in reference to Ihjh'ni and ^vas 

 punished by Dacsha, but the punishment vvas removed by paying 

 homage here. 



12. This section relates to Ptv/cca/Zpa, an aji/ra, who provided the 

 perfume of civet for the shrine, and acqaired great merit for so doing. 

 Since then civet-cats are kept, ard the reward of offering that per- 

 fume is very great. A recapilulation of the transit of the contents of 

 the Parana, down to its hitest delivery to the rishis, with the men- 

 tion of which the book ends. 



Note. — The MS. No. 27 is complete. It is old and somewhat da- 

 maged by insects. The MS. No. 18 is fresher in appearance ; but 

 also a little damaged. The damaged leaves in this copy I have had 

 restored by the aid of both copies, and one being complete may suf- 

 fice. Both MSS. are in verse with a prose explanation. They are en- 

 tered in Des. Catal. vol. 1, p. !68 art. xvii. 



Remark.— If the reader shall have perused the foregoing abstract, 

 it will be only necessary further to observe, that in Saiva fanes of the 

 Peninsula, if local Purdnam, and not the Vedas gives the religion 

 of the votaries. 



14. Dandi Jlancaram, or the rhetoric of Dand't, No. 63 — Countermark 

 220. 



In this book there are two copies tied up together. The first copy 

 contains the mulam, or original poetical stanzas of Dandi, together 

 with exemplifications or examples, and is complete. The second cop}'' 

 contains the original sutras together with the urai or commentary, in 

 verse, by some other unknown autlior; added to which are the exempli- 

 fications. This last copy wants a few leaves at the end of the com- 

 mentary. The book is a little injured in one or two places, by insects ; 

 but not seriously. The work is not scarce. 



Dandi next to Calidasa, is said to have been the most celebrated 

 poet at the court of Blioja-raja, He has the traditionary reputation, in 

 the Peninsula, of having been C/6a yft-coi"', or a poet in two languages, 

 the Sanscrit, and the Tamil. The above work is on thirty-five kinds 

 of poetical, or rhetorical, ornament ; and, with reference to the Tamil 

 art of poetry, the work is considered to be valuable. 



