1839.] 



Ittport 071 the Mcckenzie Manuscripts. 



331 



Roman Catholic Christian, indicated by an expression at the begin- 

 ning; and there is one viruth^m or stanza, which declares the 

 unity of the Supreme Being, and the vanity of idols, in such a 

 manner, as evidently to be the composition of a Christian. The 

 remaind-^T. in both copies, as far as complete, is a sort of centum of verses 

 extracted from various authors, and without much cohereni'e : so as to 

 wear rather the appearance of such kind of poetical extracts as are 

 sometimes made in an album. Both copit-s seem to me quite useless ; 

 and are allowed to remain as I found them. They are entered in the 

 Des. Cat. vol. 1. p. 226, art. x'vi, and are stated to contain " praises of 

 Vimhnu and S-va, and especially of the forms of the latter and his spouse 

 worshipped at Madura, or Sundaresvcira and AI in akshi-^mmaU* This 

 definition of the contents is very incorrect. 



29. Nannul Padavey al, Ta.mil etymology — No. 60 — Countermark 211. 



30. Nannuly a Tamil grammar— No. 61 — Countermark 212. 



The first of these manuscripts (or No. 60) is a part of the NannuU 

 being the chapter on etymology termed joaof/V^/a/, treating of words. It 

 contains the original sufras, with the comment of Sancara-Nama-sivaya 

 in Sheii-HdmW, and another comment, or explanation of the comment, in 

 Cof/MAi- Tamil, or the common dialect. This MS. is written on Talipat 

 leaves (used in the extreme south) ; and is in good preservation. 



The other M.S. (No. 61) is an imperfect copy of the same famous 

 grammatical work by Pavanandi, abridged from the Tolcapiyam, as the 

 latter is said to have been abridged from a still larger work of Jgastya. 

 The Nannul had three explanatory commentators ; the comment in this 

 MS. is that by Sancara-Nama-sivaya Pulavan alone. The MS. is 

 however very deficient ; at the beginning it wants the preface, the two 

 first chapters, or sections, and a small part of the third at its commence- 

 ment. Part of the 4th section, at the end, is wanting ; and all the re- 

 mainder, what there is of the contents is on orthography only. The 

 leaves of the book are not of equal size ; and seem like fragments of two 

 books put together; being a fragment still. The leaves are of the broad 

 kind common only in the extreme south of the peninsula. They are in 

 tolerably good condition. 



Note. — The two copies are entered in Des. Cat. vol. 1, p. 247, art. 2. 

 —It will be seen from what precedes that if both MSS. were put to- 

 gether they would not form a complete copy of the entire work. 



