Beport on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



a neighbouring queen of ^Nlgarsha-desam, advising one of the two to 

 put on woman's attire. They accordingly went, one being so disguised, 

 but Shnanfri, discerning the fraud, pronounced the doom of always con- 

 tinuing in that way degraded. The other son returned; and the father 

 becoming acquainted with what had occurred went to the king of 

 Viderbha-desanif and reproached him for teaching such a fraud, who re- 

 ferred the matter to his counsellors. These taking into considerMion 

 that the BraJiman had always be^h an exemplary worshipper of Sim on 

 Mondays, advised him to perform special acts of homage, which he did, 

 and by the favour of iS/ua had another son born to him, whence the 

 efficacy of homage to Siva on Monday, is deduc ed by inference. 10 — 

 The excellence of the Siva-yogyja (or ascetic -Saiya-devotion). A Brah- 

 man, being wealthy, allowed himself the use of animal food, and 

 irregular intercourse, for which he was reproved, and set right 

 by a Siva-yogi (or Saiva ascetic). At a subsequent period the 

 Brahman dying became a foetus in the womb of a queen ; and great 

 difficulty and agony occurring at the time of birth, the king and queen 

 went out into a forest, or wilderness, where a dead child was born ; but 

 Siva-yogi J coming by, put ViVhuti (or sacred ashes) on the child; 

 which opened its eyes, and was delivered alive to the mother, who 

 greatly rejoiced. The ascetic announced that the child would be a 

 powerful king; and, wishing prosperity, departed. Hence the estima- 

 tion in which a Saiva ascetic ought to be held is rendered apparent. 

 II. — The instruction of ^^afl?r«6oAw, the said child. It relates to the 

 teaching of the child warlike exercises, and accomplishments. 12.— 

 This section relates some exploits of the said young man, and his re- 

 ceiving instruction in some mantras from Rishabka-yogt. 13. — The i 

 marriage of Bhadrabahu. 14. — Has a reference to section 9, the said 

 Sumantri^ in another birth, being it seems the bride of Bhadrabahu in i 

 this one. 15. — The excellence of the Vibliuti or Saiva ashes. 16.—- 

 The mode of preparing those ashes, and of using them j whereby all ji 

 Bins are removed. 17. — The tale of a Vedar or savage hunter, who ob- |l 

 tained beatification by the worship of »Su'a, whence the excellence of 

 that worship is inferentially deduced. 18.— The section of Uma-isvara, j 

 It refers to the death of a Brahman, hy the bite of a serpent, and to ' 

 certain directions given by a sage, as to the worsship of the said form of 

 Siva and Parvati. 19. — Storyof Sarati a Brahm^m female (on the prin- 

 ciple of the metempsychosis) who was falsely accused, and delivered by 

 the interposition of a celestial voice. Her discovery of her husband at 

 Gokernam, 2it the vV/ra-ra^rt festival, and great happiness afterwards, ! 

 20. — Excellence of the rudracsha beads. A king obtained Cailasa by j 



♦ Sanscrit NUhada, 



