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in this instance, little more than a vehicle for the latter. Nama- 

 sivayi is represented as uttering a long train of venpas, a sort of brief 

 sonnets, if I may so render the term, expressive of some supposed ex- 

 cellence of some particular portion of the fane, at Trinomalee, and the 

 ammen, or goddess, pleased with the strain, uniformly grants every part 

 of the requests which are made. The production exhibits the puerility 

 of idolatry, to a striking degree. The intention, however, of the book 

 seems to be to magnify the saidGwrM, as one extraordinarily favoured by 

 the local numina of the shrine. 



Note. — The document is complete in twenty palm-leaves, which are 

 in moderately good preservation; though a little touched by insects. 

 Two leaves are appended, containing an account of succession by here- 

 ditary descent of a Panddram, of the said fane of Trinomali : of no 

 importance. 



The M.S. is entered in the Des. Catal. vol. 1. p. 207. art. 30. 



11. Tanjavur Candiyiir-Isvara koil-sila'SassananTialj or inscriptions 

 on stone in the Saiva fane of Candhjur, in the kingdom of Tanjore, No. 

 6 — Countermark 957, written within. 



The contents are thirty two inscriptions copied out in Candiyur 

 Tirupanturatti, Coil patti-iillistanam, Caduvuzi, Carunta pattankudi.^^ 



According to the number of the leaves, there are 95 palm-Ieaves 

 wanting; though the number of inscriptions, that is 32, is complete; 

 answermg to the above title, written within on a blank leaf in a different 

 hand-writting. It is therefore uncertain whether what may have pre- 

 ceded was taken away or lost; but some similar books in the collection 

 render it probable that this is one section of a continued series. 



No. 41. In the Saiva fane at Candeyur^ dated 17lh year of the rule 

 of Ko-raja-Cesava-Maharaja, gift to a fane at Satya-mangalam. 



No. 42. Dated in the lOthyear of Kopa-deva; but the other words 

 and letters are so evidently incomplete, and disjointed, that the inscrip- 

 tion could not have been legible on the stone. 



No. 43. Dated in the 11th year of Ko-raja Kesari, the name of 

 7'iru Candeyur is legible ; nothing else. 



No. 44. Inscription on the shrine at Tirupantlrutti Pushpavanes- 

 vara-svami ; name of the goddess Savuntira nayak ammen. 



Dated Sal. Sac. 1346, in Crodhi year : gift by Vijaya rayen, of the race 

 of Harihara rayer of a certain portion from the revenue arising from 

 cultivation. 



