1838-] Ueport on ttie Mackenzie Manuscript?. 33 



Manuscript book, No. 50.— Countermark 1019. 



Section 2. Apparently intended to continue copies of inscriptions 

 from Chill ambr am has been left blank. 



Abstract of Inscriptions. 



Section 3. Inscriptions at Carwr and Darapuram in the Coimbatore 

 province. 



No. 1. Gift of the revenues of a certain district (reserving the 

 rights of a more ancient fane), to the Brahmans of Agnesvarer fsine, in 

 the I2th year of some one's reign — name not appearing. 



No. 2. Gift of a village called Chenu-padu to the same fane, free of 

 all tax or incumbrance, in the i2th year of some one's reign— name 

 supposed to have been illegible. 



No. 3. Dated in the 17th year of Sri-vira Pandiya-dever, gift of 

 certain proportions of revenue towards the celebration of the April 

 festival of the same fane. 



No. 4. Inscription in the Vaishnava fane of Varada-raj a, in 

 same town of Carur, gift of land; the name of Kulotiunga Chola-dever 

 appears, but without connection, and there is no date. 



No. 5. Gift by Crishna-rayer of the village called Neruvur to 

 Hama-linga-sastri : the inscription is in the Canarese language. No 

 date. 



No. 6. This inscription is of considerable length and celebrates the 

 praises of a Chola king, whose name is nevertheless not mentioned. 

 It is in inflated poetical language; and its purport is to commemorate 

 a gift of some revenue on land, to the aforesaid fane of Vavada-raja at 

 Carur. The names of several persons are recorded as witnesses. 

 There is no date; but it serves to give an additional attestation to the 

 fact of a Chola conquest of the ancient Conga-desanif or Coimbatore 

 district. 



No. 7. Dated in the 9th year of Rajendra-dever, gift of a piece of 

 land; recorded in the porch of the aforesaid fane. 



No. 8. Dated in the 23d year of Kulottunga Chola " the decapitator 

 of the Pandiyan, and possessor of Carur" : donation of a piece of land. 



No. 9. Gift of a village and a tank, to endow a choultry at Carur, 

 built by Cavetti JVayaker, Bodi Nayaker^ and two other Poligars, in 



