286 lieport on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. [Oct- 



deva. He was in charge 50 years, and some months. The series is con- 

 tinued down in hereditary succession, with an average of about 50 years 

 ascribed to each. This succession ofiers nothing remarkable, down to 

 the 57th in order, who was named Nani-perumal-aiyen-Uttama-namhu 

 This manager applied to the Prah'hu, or local-chief (name not stated) 

 for the means of conducting the public festival of the goddess, which the 

 said chief declined affording ; and the Brahman cut his own throat, in 

 consequence ; immediately after whi^^h an afflatus of the goddess is said 

 to have rested on some one present, telling the chief that there was no 

 need now to do that which had not been commanded by her. The suicide, 

 after death, had an epithet applied to him, signifying '* firm to his word." 

 In the time of the 63d, in order the shrine of the goddess was repaired. 

 In the time of the 74th named Garuda'VaJiana-Payiditar-Utta'ma-Nambi, 

 we first meet with a known date, being Sal. Sac. 995 (A. D. 1072). Con- 

 cerning him it is noted that besides ordering certain matters relating to 

 the fane, which are specified, he was a scholar, and wrote many 

 GranVhm, or Sanscrit books. His son and successor, pulled down his 

 own house, and employed the materials in building a hundred pillared 

 Mantapa (or porch) which procured signal approbation from the god. 

 The 78th was named Ramaniijachary Uttama Namhi (apparently after 

 the famous Ramartiija). Many evils befel the fane in the time of the 

 80th, which he remedied by rebuilding what had been destroyed (how 

 not specified). The date of repairs Sal. Sac. 1293 in the time ofBiiFha 

 rayer of Vijaijanagaram, whose general or agent Vv^as named Cumpanra- 

 udiyar. The influence of the Rayer dynasty appears under the 81st of 

 the series. In the next, donations by Tirimala Nayak of Madura are 

 mentioned, with a date ; and other similar particulars, occur down to the 

 90th, who is simply termed Uttama Namhi. 



There follows a list of 21 other names of another line, which has the 

 cognomen of Chacraiyer ; probably that of a second manager. A few 

 lines of a Gra>ifha inscription in corroboration are added ; and the au- 

 thenticity of the whole is attested by the autograph (apparently) of 

 Uttama NamU ; stating his personal responsibility if any thing erroneous 

 should be found therein. 



Remark. — This document being written on bad country paper, much 

 injured by insects, has been restored. It affords an instance of the way 

 in which such kind of scattered documents may clear up a difficulty, or 

 doubtful point, of history, when least expected. All the manuscripts, 

 which treat of the Pandvyan history, mention the first incursion of the 

 Mahomedans, with the disastrous consequences, and ascribe their expul- 

 sion to one Cammanan or Campanan ; sometimes described as having 



