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longing to them, by way of endowment. Also of eighteen other villages 5 

 given, for repairs, ornaments, &c. connected with the service of the shrines. 



A list of the inscriptions, within or around the walls of the fane ; bat 

 without any specification of the contents. 



Remark. — The section-heading imperfectly designates the contents : 

 the chief portion of which relates to the fane of Karz Kundam, about 

 seren miles S. W. of Chingleput (a building on a hill, of remarkable 

 appearance, on the high road to Trichinopoly). 



The paper, on which the section is written, is in perfect preservation ; 

 the ink is become pale ; but the contents are not of such consequence as 

 to require immediate restoration. The document will last, as it is, for 

 several years. 



Sectloyi 2. Account of Pdndiya Pratdpa raja of the Pmidiya desam. 



This is not, as the title would appear to imply, the a,ccount of one 

 king, but of the Pandkja race. Hence raja is to be understood collec- 

 tively, or in the plural, undPrafapa merely as an epithet signifying cele- 

 brated" or illustrious." 



The document contains an outline of the contents of the Madura 

 Sfhala Purdnam, down to the time of Kiina-Sundara Pdndiyan. It then 

 mentions an unsettled, or unknown, period. The story of Arjuna and his 

 brothers, is adverted to, from the Blidratam ; so far as needful to intro- 

 duce the visit of Arjuna to Madura. It is added afterwards, that Arjuna, 

 having married the daughter of Maliya-dhvaja, his son named Peparavd- 

 hana succeeded to Maliya-dhvaja, and thence forward is deduced a line of 

 kings, down to Chandra Sec^hara, and the intervention from Vijayanaga- 

 ram ; which led to the accession of Visvandtha-nayak ; with the mention 

 of which circumstance, and the cessation of the Pandiua dynasty, the 

 document ends. 



Remark. — In so far as concerns the A^if'/m/fl! nothing farther needs 



to be mentioned. The list of descendants, deduced from Pepara-vahana, 

 is the same with that contained in the supplementary manuscript (Or* 

 Hist. MSS. vol. I.) to which, with the three documents, before re- 

 ported, it affords a fourth attestation. 



The statement that ^rjw/za married the daughter of Maliya-dhvaja, I 

 have met with herein, for the first time, in a native MS. : consequently an 

 expression of disbelief, as to its being contained in any native MS, 

 which I have somewhere made, must be withdrawn. The conjecture to 

 that effect, by an inference of my own, is confirmed. And, if it be true, it 



