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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts, 



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Gift of certain revenues, from villages specified, to the said fane, 

 ivom Nallatambi-kavundany Biuothtv person. Dated in Cal. Yug. 

 4722. Sal. Sac. 1543. 



No. 40. Dated in the first year of Vicrama-chola-dever gift of a 

 piece of land to the village fane of Velur. 



No. 41. Dated in the ninth year of Ficra-chola-dever, gift of a wa- 

 ter reservoir, and some land, to the village fane of Nattur, 



No. 42. Dated in the fifth year of the reign of Fira-Fandi2/a-dever, 

 and in the 1402nd year of the reign of Saccai (or Salivahana), gift by 

 three persons, whose names are subscribed, of a reservoir of water and 

 the land around it, fertilized thereby, to the god and goddess 

 of Vijayamangalam, of the Peruniuri talook in the district of Coimba- 

 tore. 



Note.— This inscription if the dates can be depended upon, is im- 

 portant; because it fixes the date of a Pandiyan king's accession to 

 the throne in A. D. 1475. Very soon after that time the power came 

 into the hands of the northern viceroys from Vijayanagaram. By 

 consequence this Vira Pandiya, must either be Fira-Chandra'Sec'hara 

 Pandiyan, the last of that dynasty, or else one of the five illegitimate 

 PandiyoMS, who contested the kingdom with the northern lords. The 

 ascending series, upwards from that period, may be the safest process, 

 to come at the Pandiya line, with any thing like satisfaction as to the 

 result. 



No. 43. Dated nearly in the reign of Vira-vallala-dever, gift by 

 the people of Tirupa-naltar to the above fane, of the village of Ra^ 

 ghuta-Raya-vellur, with all its revenues; the bounds of the said grant 

 being marked out by stone pillars bearing the Trisula or tridental 

 mark, of the Faishnavas, 



No. 44. Dated in the fifth year of Fira-Chola-dever, and in the 

 reign of Saccai 1044, by the Fallalan named Bella-calai to the village 

 fane of Natlam ; a gift of land to supply the expense of public fes- 

 tivals. 



Note.— This inscription is also valuable, as (if accurate) it fixes the 

 accession of Fira-Chola lo A. D. 1117. From this date, in the ascend- 

 ing series, and following the best accounts of the Chola dynasty, its 

 commencement must be fixed posterior to the beginning of the Chris- 

 tian era. 



No. 45. Dated in the reign of Fira-vallala-dever, gift by the peo- 

 ple of Tirupa-nal ta oi {somtihmgi letters gone), and a water-reser- 

 voir to a fane at Fijayainangalam. At the foot the date of Sal. Sac, 

 1244. (A. D. 1322-3). 



