1840.] 



JRepoj't on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



95 



No. 45. Dated in Sal. Sac. 1336, Manmafa year. Gift of land to 

 the same fane, by some head-men, apparently three in number. 



No, 46. Dated in the lOth year of Korasadaipan Chola aJem* ; but 

 no intelligible sense can be made out. 



No. 47. Dated in the 30th year of Kirl Konda Chola-dever ; gift of 

 various sundries for offerings or services to a fane ; the name of which 

 cannot be made out. 



No. 48. Dated in the 20th year of Kiri Konda Kopa-Kosiya 

 pairam dever ChoJan: gift of land to maintain a constant light in a fane 

 of ^ Adi'chandesvara. 



No. 49. Dated in Sal. Sac. 1454, a string of titles without any proper 

 name ; that of Varadapaiyar of Krishnapuram occurs, but this is per- 

 haps that of the local god : gift of a tax on cows. 



Kemark. — The foregoing is merely a specimen of the contents. They 

 are so prevailingly illegible, from deficiency of letters, as to lead to the 

 inference, either that the said letters were defaced on the stone, or else 

 that the characters were not understood. Considerable pains were taken 

 with this book ; without adequate result. The oldest inscriptions ap- 

 pear to have no Sacai year stated ; and where the Sacai year is mention- 

 ed, the date is comparatively modern. 

 The M.S. is entered in Des. Catal. vol. 2. p. 118. art. 5. 



12. Bomma naydk ^az/tg^^j account of a Poligar,No. 200 — Countermark 

 9G. 



13. Same title. „ 221 „ 86. 



The first of these documents is in the hand-writing of Suhrahmanyan^ 

 and the other in the hand-writing of SHnivasaiyan, both persons being 

 retainers of the house of Bomma naynJcj whose chief town is herein 

 termed Carisapattu-vdra-pur. The subject, and incidents, in both 

 J - documents are very nearly the same ; being an account of the lineage of 

 ci'f* [Bomma-nayah. It does not date higher up than the period of Visvanafha 

 \nayak of Madura; among whose attendants the ancestor of this race 

 ne i Iwas one. As the Madura ruler distrusted the people of the south he 

 jbuilt a greatly enlarged fort 5 and one of the bastions was committed 

 '0> 'to the care of the said ancestor; on whom likewise was bestowed an 

 extensive fief in land, in the neighbourhood of Sivagangai and Ramnad. 

 The lineage is given, downwards ; without the mention of any thing 

 ..0 particular, until the war against Tanjore, and the capture of its capital. 

 Subsequently the mention of marriages, and petty incidents, occur, rela- 



