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Report on the Mackenzie Mmtuscript^, 



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No. 167. Dated in the 21st year of Fira-Pandiya-dever. Gift from 

 a person (name partly obliterated) to maintain a constant lamp in a 

 fane. 



No, 168. Gift of a reservoir 5 the proceeds of the land fertilized 

 thereby to go to a fane ; other parliculars, as to donor, &c. do not ap- 

 pear. 



No. 169. Dated in the reign of Vira- Pandiya- deva-raja, the Sagap- 

 tarn era is defaced. Gift of a village to the fane of Pariyur, in the 

 Conjeveram country. 



No. 170. (Beneath the preceding inscription). Dated in the 11th 

 year of Fira-Pandiya-dever, Gift of two villages to the fane of Pari- 

 yur of the Conjeveram district, by Periya-deven. 



No. 171. A copper-plate inscription in the possession of Uma-Ma^ 

 hesvara-sastri m the agraharam (alms-house) at Satiya-mangalam, writ- 

 ten in the Canada-lehhi character. 



Dated in Sal. Sac. 1682. (A. D. 1760) in the time of Crishna-raja- 

 udiyar, king of Mysore, of the race of Pravuda-rayer. It relates to 

 the purchase of Colaiiir, with seven subordinate villages, for a price 

 specified; the revenues apparently to go to the maintenance of three 

 residents in the said alms-house, that is Uma-mahesvara-sastri, Suba-sas- 

 tri, and Fencalesvara. 



No. 172. Canarese inscription on copper-plate, in the possession 

 of Yajnya-sastri, son of Suba-dicshadar, of the aforesaid alms-house, 

 dated in Sal. Sac. 1684, in the time of Crishna-raja-udiyar, of Mysore ; 

 and relates to revenue, or income, arising from certain villages which 

 are specified. 



No. 173. Copy of inscription in the Canada4ebbi character, in 

 possession of Srinivasdcharya son of Cuppacharya in the alms-house 

 at Satya-mangalam aforesaid. 



Dated in Sal. Sac. 1684, relates to certain pecuniary advantages 

 given to Cuppacharya, the father of the person holding the grant from 

 Criahna raja-adiyar, the then ruler of Mysore. 



Manuscript book, No. 26.— Countermark 780. 



Section 1. Account of Jppaiya-nayak, the chief of Cannivadi, 



The ancestors of the tribe were servants of the Bayer in Sal. Sac, 

 1325 or Cali-yuga 4504. As the Mahomedans w ere plundering the 



