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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts* 



[July 



times, and matters, already treated on by various historians, it does not 

 seem, in this place, to demand further attention. It is very brief. 



Account of Anagundi. 



[Not sectionized in the table of contents at the beginning of the 

 book]. 



Crishna-Rayala ruled over the vv^hole of the country, south of the Nir- 

 mathi (Nerbudda) river. He had a hundred thousand troops. A su- 

 bordinate viceroy of Anagundi, ruling over twenty cosses of land, and 

 having charge of the elephants of Crishna-Rayalu, vi^as ordered by the 

 latter to quit Anagundi. Two Gossavas (mendicants) pleaded on his 

 behalf, representing his charity and virtues ; but Crishna-Rayalu. was 

 inexorable. The Gossava taught Crishna-Rayalu some moral instruc- 

 tions ; but being imperatively ordered to quit, he denounced on Crishna 

 Bayer the doom of being childless, and without a direct successor, 

 which accordingly occurred. 



Subsequently while Rama-Rayalu was ruling, a Mahomedan fakir, 

 came and bathed in a sacred-pool ; and, being taken while doing so, 

 was carried before the ruler, at whose command the fakir himself, and 

 two others of his class, were beaten, and allowed to escape barely with 

 life. They went to Delhi (a word often loosely used for Mahomedan 

 power) and represented that if FiJ ay an agar am were not taken, the 

 Delhi ruler was no Mussulman. In consequence of this incident, pre- 

 parations were made to go against Vijayanagara ; which was captured. 

 The successors of that race, held a petty sovereignty over Anagmidi ; 

 and, in the lime of Tippu-Sultan, the descendant, then alive, retired to 

 Sholapore. 



Note.— This brief paper, being in good preservation, does not need to 

 be restored. 



Section 5. Account of the Mahratta prince Sahu-raja, 



The paper commences with a reference to the time of Acbar, who 

 fought with Vnida Si?igh, and overcame him ; and contains some no- 

 tice of affairs downwards. The paper has in it details of transactions, 

 connected with Mr. Elphinstone's proceedings at Poonah ; which 

 ended in the war against the Peisliwah, and the conquest of his domi- 

 nions. 



