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dons to the fane from Sal. Sac. 1516, down to S. S. 1607. From 160S, 

 down to 16/8, or seventy years, during the rale of ihe Nabob at Cud- 

 dapah, all ihings at this place were involved in trouble by the Maho- 

 medans ; and there was no public exercise at this place, of the Saiva 

 religion. The Brahmans Wvtdi on -eAms which they sought as mendi- 

 cants. The French had an unsettled rule of one year; but the fane 

 w^as still supported by alms. The Mahomedan Nabob succeeding 

 acted, during twenty years, as the Cuddapah ruler had before done. 

 In S. S. I/Oo, the troubles occasioned by Hyder All arose, and lasted 

 during four years. In S. S. I/IO (A. D. i/SS), under the ascendancy 

 of the English Company the fane was well provided for. In S. S. 17U, 

 during Mahomed All's government, for six years, all things were again 

 in disorder; and the Brahmans subsisted by begging. From that time 

 forwards, whether under the English, or Nabob, the festivals and cere- 

 monies of the fane had provision made for them. 



A specification follows of the various processions, and the ceremony 

 observed in each of them. 



There are now, on the establishment of the fane, 225 Brahmans, offi- 

 ciating in courses and receiving their share of the revenues. With 

 Ihem fifteen subordinate assistants, eight faithful watchers, and twenty- 

 other persons, musicians, danseuses, and the like attendants. 



The preceding matters were written down, as the result of enquiries 

 made of the officiating Brahmans, concerning the earliest antiquities 

 of the place. (Applicable to the portion headed " further particulars, 

 &c."). 



A short statement follows, the purport of which is, that in the time 

 of the deluge, the image of Sabhapali (Siva) was taken away, and 

 cast into a tree, of which it at length formed a part ; and, by certain 

 mystic sounds, and an appearance of the god in vision, was discovered 

 by the three thousand Brahmans, on their first coming to the place. 

 During a certain period of rule of the Bhosala-race at Tanjore, this 

 image remained at Tiruvarur, and at a later period was deposited at 

 Chitamharam. 



Section 3. The genealogy of the chief of JVadava-curucht. 



This account contains the usual particulars of such papers, relative 

 to the southern Poligars; but with some matters in this one, of rather 

 special interest. The leading facts are, that the ancestors of the line 



