1839.] 



Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



S89 



This volume is a thin folio, and contains two parts ; the first a legen- 

 dary account of Pddmachala, professedly extracted from the Sccmda" 

 puranam ; the second an incomplete copy of the Bhugola-pramdnam, or 

 system of Hindu geograpliy. To the legendary details of tiie first it 

 jnay perhaps be expedient to return, more at leisure; as a few grains of 

 wheat may be picked out of the chaff; and the more especially since 

 the country paper is a little touched by insects and the ink in several 

 places faded. More important matters requiring notice, this may be 

 passed, for the present, with a general indication as to its state of pre- 

 servation. The other fragment is written on Europe paper, and will re- 

 main legible a long time. It may also be referred to the notice of a 

 palm-leaf Tamil MS. bearing the same title, with the like contents. 



Manuscript book, No, 53 — Countermark 1022. 



The contents of this book are of a very miscellaneous description. In 

 the index three sections are specified, as containing respectively in- 

 scriptions from Tiir-hinopoly, Coimbatore, and Tanjore. The included 

 matter will appear from the following biief outline. 



1. At Trichinopoly, gift of land at J(/ilur, by Vaiyapa-rayaJc, who 

 deduces his descent from Achyu'a-nayak to whom a long string of titles 

 is ascribed. The gift is perpetual, to support car-festivals, and other 

 expences of the fane of Tiruva^es oarer, with heavy denunciations 

 against any alienation of ihe gift to other purposes. 



2. A. hand-writing given in by one or two individuals, specifying cer- 

 tain donations relative to a large lake for irrigation. One uncertain date 

 appears, and another date S. S. 1634, with the name of Cruhna-raja- 

 udiyar (of Mysore). 



3. A Canarese inscription. It records certain donations made by 

 Cr/shna-raja-udiyar of Mysore, to a fane of VisvanaV ha-svami at Bhu' 

 vani-kudal, in the Coimbatore province. The grants consisted both of 

 land and money ; of which a list is given. There does not appear any 

 Saca'r year : but ilie date of course is modern. 



4. Legendary matter as to the establishment of a Saioa emblem in 

 the Dharapur district, by the command of a visionary appearance. Sotne 

 gifts made to it were partly continued, and partly subverted after the 

 Mysore conquest. 



5. Details concerning an agraharam in Coimbatore province, with 

 gifts made, and fluctuations of power. The establishment of the alms* 

 house is dated in S. S. IIOO. It is signed by some inhabitants. 



