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Report of the Mackeiizie Manuscripts. 



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Saluva Narasinha rayen 

 Immudi Timnia I'ayen.. 



Vira Narasinha 



Crishna deva rayen . . . ., 

 Achyuta deva rayen. ... 



Sada Siva rayen 



Tirumala deva rayen . . . . 

 Sri-rangba deva rayen. 



Saluva gada 



7 years S. S. 1350 

 49 „ „ 1599 

 11 „ M 1410 



21 „ „ 1431 

 20 „ „ 1451 



13 „ „ 1464 



22 „ 1486 



8 „ „ 1494 



14 „ „ 1508 



(Abrupt break) vide section, 6| (over leaf). 



Section 7. The genealogy Anangaru-dcharya, the warden of the 

 fane of Srirangham. 



This is a narration, at some length, of internal matters, within the said 

 fane of well known celebrity. It offers only occasional references to 

 matters connected with Chola kings, and their government. Among 

 these Crimi'kanda-cliola is mentioned as having acted treacherously to- 

 wards the place ; and his son Kulottunga-cholan, to repair the fault, 

 made large donations. Other references are not so distinct, as to 

 names. The chief subject of the narrative is a detail of strifes, and 

 struggles, for power, between two rival factions, within the fane ; so 

 that it often required kingly influence to be interposed to adjust the 

 differences; and these were for example, which leader should have the 

 right of putting a crown on the head of the idol, during the performance 

 of certain ceremonies, and which leader of the two factions should have 

 the right fin^t to dip his hand in the sacred tirt^ha, or pool : in the lat- 

 ter case, it was determined that both leaders should dip their hands in 

 the lirCha precisely at the same time. The inter-mural strife, seems 

 to have been handed down from one generation to another. Taken al- 

 together the narrative exhibits a state of things within the structure in 

 question, very different indeed from the almost Arcadian portrait drawn 

 by Mr. Orme in his history : guided rather by his imagination, than 

 by real knowledge. As the fanciful portrait has been often copied, 

 and muUiplied, it may be as well to know that it was unreal. 



After the foregoing document, and connected with it, there follows 

 copy of a decision, or decree by the Nabob (name not specified) con- 

 cerning the two objects of contention, before adverted to; that is to say 

 the right of first taking up water from the tirCha (or pool), and the 



