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Report on the Mackeiizie Manuscripts. 



[Oct. 



No. 16. No date. Timma Kondan (a ruler) gave an order to teii 

 heads of villages, to supply some assistance (not specified) to a fane. 



No. 17. Dated the in 26th year of 7?a;■ad^ raja-raja-dever. Ndrapa- 

 nmjak, gave twenty-six cows and 59 sheep to 3 cow-herds and shepherds, 

 under an obligation to furnish every day a certain specified quantity of 

 butter- oil and curds ; the former to be used in maintaining a perpetual 

 lamp in a fane. 



No. 18. Dated in Sal. Sac. 1459, in the time of Achutapa-deva-maha- 

 rmjer. The said Rmjer gave a village, having four connected hamlets to 

 the fane of Aruldla-Perumal in Tinivattiyur, to furnish a constant sup- 

 ply of butter-oil for the evening- daily -anomting of the image ; and also 

 a revenue cf one thousand five-himdred gold huns, arising from fourteen 

 villages for the general ceremonial usage of the said fane. 



No. 19. Dated in Sal. Sac. 1461, in the time of Sri-Vira-Achyuta 

 rayer. One named Pardncusa-jiyar purchased from Brahmans three 

 villages, their private property, and then made them over to the fane of 

 Aruldla per^tmal in Tiruvattiyur, for anointing the image with butter- 

 oil, and other ceremonies, on fifteen yecadctsas (or eleventh- da5^s of the 

 moon's bright and dark half) out of the entire number during the year. 



No. 20. Dated in the 6th year of the reign of Sri-Vijaya-Kanda 

 Gopdla. Gift by the whole of the people of the town of Amiir of eighty 

 calams of rice-corn annually, to the above mentioned fane at Tiruvattiyur 

 (supposed to be Conjeveram). 



No. 21. Dated in Sal. Sac. 1513 (A. D. 1591) in the time of Fenca^ 

 tapati-rayer-maha-raja. Gift by Sama veda-rangapaiyer of the two 

 united villages of Alampdcam and Anampddi, for the general ceremo- 

 nies in the fane of Poruldla Perumal; Cumara Tattacharya-ayengar 

 being constituted trustee. 



No. 22. Dated in Sal. Sac, 1462 in the time of Vira Pratdpa-Achijutai 

 rayer-Maha-raijer. One najocied Rama Pattdiyar ga.ve 120 gold huns to 

 be laid out in cultivation, the proceeds to be appropriated to the supply 

 of food for the image (i. e. temple-attendants). 



No. 23. Dated in Sal. Sac. 1454 Nandana year in the time oi Achyuta 

 rayer-maha-rayer. Achyuta-rayer was installed in the preceding Viroti- 

 year ; he conquered many persons— he subdued the Pdndhja king, and 

 took one of his daughters ; he fixed a pillar of victory on the banks of the 

 Tdinhraparani (river at Tinnevelly) ; he greatly harrassed Tumbichi 

 narjali, and Sdlava-nayak ; and, retmiiing hither in the above mentioned 

 year 1454, in the presence of Farada-raja-s vdmi (god of the Vaishnava 

 fane at Conjeveram) he had himself weighed against pearls in the op- 

 posite balance, and gave his vf eight in these to the fane ; and, at the 



