96 Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. [Jaw. 



five to other chieftaii)!?, and especially those of Ramnad. One of this 

 line went to Tanjore in the time of Tuccoji, and Sarboji, Mahratta 

 rulers ; and disiinguished himself, much to their satisfaction, by killing 

 a tidier in single combat. Afterwards the incidents relate to the strifes, 

 and unseftlrd state of ihini{s, down to the assumption of power by the 

 Nabob of Arcot The writers mention the ex'sting chiefs, at the time 

 when the doeunr.enis were written; and state the desire then felt to 

 obtain the patron.ige of the Honourable Company. 



Remark.- Both documents are brief, and complete. They would 

 merit to be consulted in any particular account (-f the unsettled, and 

 disorderly period of the Madura government, posterior to the contested 

 succession by Minacsht, and Bangaru Tritnala tiayaJc, This house of 

 Bomma nayak subsequently met with a severe fate, afer giving much 

 trouble. I am c( m})el]ed to say I ihink they deserved it ; for by tra- 

 ditionaiy circumstances, handed down in a portion of my family, I 

 know them to have been among the woist of the pall ya carers of their 

 day. The incident connected with one of this race in the time of Ttru- 

 mala nay ok, has been before adverted to, in the abstract of tine Madura 

 Virapa?i Animuni (see 4th Report). 



Note — One of these copies is entered in the Des. Catal. vol. 1. p. 206, 

 art. XXV. 



14. Divdkaram, a vocabulary. No. 64— ^Oioiiifife'riM^k 221. 



The work which. baars this title is a common and well known voca- 

 bulary of the Tamil language, in verse, on the plan of the Amra coshUf 

 and Mgandu : though not so full. It is ascribed io Chendal Di oak aran^ 

 a follo>A er of Subrahmanya. 



Of the twelve p.iris of which this work, when complete, consists, 

 there is in this manuscri})t only about two-thirds of iho first part, on 

 the names of the gods. As regards preservaiiou, the fragmeui is uu- 

 injured. 



This manuscript is entered in Des. Catal. vol. 1. p. 252, art. 7. Ano- 

 ther palm-leaf copy is mentioned ; not at pi eseni in the collection. 



15. Stotia agavel ; hymnology, No. li)5 — Countermark 178. 



A few leaves without order, or connexion, and so greatly damaged; 

 by insects, and other causes, > s t • be no longer coherently legible. Asl 

 fdrasany subjects can be made out, the coatents agree with the title,! 



