i838.] Report on the MacJcenzie Manuscripts. 235 



first of his remaining twenty three counsellors, by whom he was treated 

 with great indignity, and passed on to the second, who imitated the con- 

 duct of the first ; and so on, till the twenty three had each one exhausted 

 his invention in devising modes of indignity, and punishment. As the 

 convert notwithstanding continued firm, his death was resolved on, and 

 he was shot. His body was afterwards interred in the bed of the river, 

 in or near the fort of Barhanafha puram. The narrative is given with 

 some poetical ornaments of language ; and is evidently the production 

 of a Roman Catholic native. The whole of the materials of the above 

 abstract, are not in this copy ; but I have obtained them by enquiry. 

 The book complete is in the hands of some of the Roman Catholic natives 

 at Madras, 



Note. This manuscript is entered in Des. Catal. vol. I. p. 223. art. 

 xxxii. as follows : 



Daiva Sahaya Sakhamanimala. Palm leaves. Account of the minis- 

 ter of the Raja of Tiruviankatur or Travankore who, although of the 

 Mapilla* caste, vv'as distinguished for his devotion to Siva, and foun- 

 dation of charitable establishments." 



Prof. Wilson certainly would never have stooped to make such an 

 entry, if the real contents of the manuscript had been truly stated to him, 

 by the employes of Colonel Mackenzie. 



10- ChoUnga-puram-koil-kyfeyut, or account of the fane at Cholinga 

 jmram No. 22/. — Countermark partly obliterated. 



References to yiigas and avataras, and some early kings of the first age, 

 second — third — fourth. A few kings in each age specified. After the close 

 of the Ilastindpuri dynasty, there is a transition to the Chola rajas, of 

 whom twenty three are specified, with moderate periods of reign ascrib- 

 ed to each one. 



Sdlivahana, having performed severe penance, and killed Vicra7ndditya, 

 reigned for 80 years. He then vanished away. Thence is reckoned the 

 era of Salivahana. A period of 605 years is then given to the Chera, 

 Cholan, and Pandiya dynasties. The Yddava race, from Sal. Sac. 730. 

 Of these a list is given, then a reference to the Warankal rajas . The 

 Rayer dynasty is specified in detail. Transition to Chandragiri kingdom. 

 Notice of Mahomedans, down to Tippu Sultan. 



Note. The preceding is a palm leaf copy of a document already ab- 

 Uracted from a Tamil MS. book No. 1, sect. 6, in the 3d Report, 



*• Malioratjdau. 



