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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



[July 



No. 136. Dated in the 8th )^ear of Vira-rajendra dever, gift of oil 

 for the use of a fane, by a district chief. 



No. 13/. Dated in the 2Istyear of Sundara-Pandiya-dever, a mer- 

 chant named Perumal, received from Arzo.giya-Pandiya-dever, 220 

 pagodas, and gave it (to what purpose not stated, the letters of the in- 

 scription having become effaced). 



No. 138. Dated Sagaptam 1460. One named Lingana-Udiijat- 

 dever, had a reservoir excavated, and divided the produce of cuhiva- 

 tion fertihzed by the water of the said reservoir, into two portions re- 

 serving one part for himself, and giving one part to the fane of Jvanasi 

 village. 



No. 139. Nothing more legible, than part of a preparatory title. 



No. 140. Gift to the fane of Avanasi, of a village in free tenure, 

 (letters of inscription much defaced). 



No. 141. An inscription copied from one in the possession of the 

 accountant of the village of Atanasi, commemorating a tax on com- 

 modities given to the fane of that town, with a full and minute specifi- 

 cation of the different articles and the rate fixed on each one — the 

 gift of one named Malliyan, a manager of Stcca-dever-raja-udiyar, 

 Dated in Sal. Sac. 1617. Cal. Yug. 479(3. 



No. 142. An inscription on the fane of Kodesvara-svami in Nadave- 

 cheri, gift of an entire village — more not legible. 



No. 143. Gift in free tenure of a reservoir and field ; to the same 

 fane : more illegible. 



{Notandum. Here follows another chasm, occasioned by the cutting 

 out and abstracting of eight leaves, on which from the remaining nuni- 

 bers the inscriptions from 144 to I48 inclusive, or five inscriptions, are 

 lost : these must have been of considerable length). 



No. 148. Two villagers gave annually a portion of grain to a fa.ne. 



No. 149. Gift of a piece of land to a fane (letters much defaced — 

 more not legible). 



No. 150. Dated in the 3d year of Sundara-dever, gift of grain an- 

 nually (letters defaced). 



No. 151. Gift of grain (letters defaced). 



No. 152. Gift, by Uttama-cholan, of land to the fane of Tiriumira- 

 ganmaJia-dever (letters defaced). 



No. 153. Dated in the tenth year of Sundara-pandiya-dever, r per- 

 son bought a piece of ground, for a flower garden, to raise fiovvers for 

 the service of the fane of (J ttamesvara-svami in Peruuianalur. 

 . No. 154. Dated in the 19th of Sundara-pandrya-dever : a merchant 

 bought a piece of land, to form a flower garden, for the same fane. 



