334 



Report on the Madenz'te Monuscripfs. 



[Arnii. 



not suftioiont to rail for restoration ; Init it will itMiuirc to be occasion- 

 ally looked at for brttor preservation. 



It isentercii in Dos. Cat. vol. i. i^. '231, art. Ivii. 



3G. Jri'na-(rir{-ria(-ha-tiru-pnfjrrz!i or liymnology, No. 138 — Coui\- 

 terniark 20'^. 



37. Same title, No. 139— Countermark 179. 



39. Same title, No. 1 10 -Countermark G6. 



39. Sam»^ title, No. 14: — Countermark 1078. 



No. 13'^ -on tains 106 stanzas, and is complete. 



Tlie MS is old, an ! the leaver art^ considerably daimged bv insects. 

 No. 1 39 contains . 50 stfinzas, and remains incompb'te at the cn^l. ll is 

 fresh and in goou conditit)n. No. 140, contains 55 stanza^, not finish- 

 ed : it is old, and lamai^ed hv* the breakinfif of one or two hvives at the 

 bevjinnino-. an 1 at the end. (It is supposed from the Nos. that there 

 shoul 1 b*'' auDth'T eo'iy : hut this ha^; not h<^on met wi'li). 



No. 142 contain^ 84 stanzas, wants the 331 and 40fh 1< aves, and does 

 not finish at the end. Th'^ pa'm-lf^avos are comi)ar.itively fresh ; but 

 damaged by insects in several plac^es. 



These manuscripts are portions only of one preat w ork ; reputed to 

 contain in all sixteen thou.sand stanzas, of the kind termed Virutlam 

 by ^>v/na-7<ri-n'i^Aa, so called after the god at lYnnmali. His name 

 forms parts of the above title, and the words firu p/ g, mean sacred 

 panegyric. This panegyric is contained in a series of hymnology; ad- 

 dressed to a form of Subrahmanya, worshipped at Tirtuni, near Madras. 



Note.— The title appears in Des. Cat. vol. i.p. 225, art. xxxviii ; but 

 only one copy seems to be therein entered. 



40. Tiruvacli'icam Hymnology hy Manlca Vaiacar, No. 103— Coun- 

 termark 161. 



41. Same title No. 104 — Countermark 162. 



42. Ibid. No. 105 — Countermark i63. 



43. Ibid. 



No. 1 06 — Countermark wanting. 



