1838.] Report on tJis Mackenzie Manuscripts, 233 



partially injured by insects. There are many orthographical inaccuracies 

 in the copy. 



5. The same title, No. 56. — Countermark 215. 



The greater part verse, mingled with a little prose. Two sections are 

 wanted at the beginning. The book is complete from the 3d sectioHj 

 with the exception of one leaf in the 3d to the end of the 12th. The 

 whole work is contained in 12 sections. It is but very slightly injured by 

 insects. 



6, The same title, No. 58. — Countermark 217- 



In verse and prose. The three first sections are complete. The whole 

 of the sixth in verse only is added. The other eight sections are wanting. 

 The manuscript is uninjured by insects. 



7. The same title, No. 59. — Countermark 218. 



In the preface, one leaf is wanting. There is only the first section in 

 this copy; and, at the end of this section, one leaf is wanting. The 

 remaining sections are wanting. The contents of the copy are in verse, 

 without prose commentary. A complete copy can at any time be made 

 out of the three last, or two copies out of the four. 



The foregoing are four different copies of one of the Nigandus, or a 

 Tamil dictionary of nearly synonymous words. A fifth copy was before 

 noticed. Vide 3d Report. The work is of common occurrence, and 

 nothing further needs to be done with regard to these copies. We have 

 their substance in printed Tamil dictionaries. Mojidala purush, the 

 author oiih.^ Nigandu, was of the J aina persuasion. 



These books entered in Des. Catal. vol. i. p. 251, art. iv, 



8. Tolcdpiyam — a grammar, No. 54. — Countermark 210, 



Agastija (a Brahman named after the great rishi so called) first passed 

 the V indhya mountains ; and led on the Brahmans to the southern pe- 

 ninsula. He is sometimes styled the father of the Tamil language, as I 



