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free gift. He afterwards greatly distinguished himself in the service 

 of the king of Trichinopoly ; terrifying the troops of the Tanjore 

 king, and overcoming various rebellious Poligars. The Tanjore king 

 sent a son of the Setupati against him, whom he repulsed. His son, 

 was Tiru-m-alla raja, whose son was Vijaya Raghu-natha. This last 

 conquered Ananta rao, a Mahratta chief, who came with ten thousand 

 cavalry*. He also overcame Clianda Khan, and Badde Smgh, who 

 commanded a hundred thousand horse : acquiring thus the title of a 

 second Padshah, and being esteemed by those who ruled in the Pan- 

 diya country as their life, by his people as the light of his race, he 

 ruled with celebrity, as the Tondaman Raghu-natha, with other titles. 



There follows a poem, of a different kind of metre from the preceding, 

 being a panegyric on the said Raghu-fiaiha. There are also two palm=' 

 leaves, containing stanzas in praise of Rama Chandra. 



Note.— This manuscript is in sufficiently good order, and does not 

 require restoration. The leading document is noticed with tolerable 

 accuracy in Des. Ci-it. vol. 1, p. 312. art. xiv. 



3. Pururata-Charitra, or legend of Puriirava, No. 49, Counter-* 

 mark 390. 



By Jppaiya Mantiri, son of Ganaparti-rayana Mantiri. 



This is a poem in a difficult species of versification : two palm-leaves 

 are w^anting in the midst. The principal subject is the birth of Puru- 

 rava, the son of Budha and lia, and the birth oi Ayu, the son of Puru-. 

 rava by Urvasi, one of the females of Indra's world. The birth of 

 Agastya, and Drona, are introduced as a part of the narrative. I la is 

 herein said to be the daughter of Faivasvata, obtained by means of a 

 great sacrifice, and on Faivasvata expressing disappointment, and dis- 

 satisfaction, at the birth of a daughter, Fasishta changed the sex of 

 Ila; but Ileji, intruding on a forbidden domain, again became a 

 woman, and was married to Budha. Along with these leading points, 

 there is a filling up of gross matter; according to the Uindu taste. 

 The legendary points are found in various portions of Hindu litera- 

 ture ; and this work is only the clothing of those early fragments in a 

 poetical, and popular, style. This manuscript therefore is of little 

 consequence ; except as a poem. 



* These two statements are amusing; at the same time they serve to show how 

 Hindus write history. 



