i08 Beport on the Maclienzie ]\Ianuscripts. [Jak, 



It is entered in Des. Catal. vol. 1. p. 334, art. 4G. 



Manuscript booky No. 6. — Countermark 899. 



Seclio7i 1. Journal oi Niiala-7iarayan, from February 1816, to March 

 18 19, in Travancore. 



This journal consists merely of tabular memoranda of towns and viU 

 lages, or observable places passed ; and is a sort of itinerary addressed to 

 the writer's own recollection, without having been drawn out into a 

 fully written report. This state of the document may perhaps be ac- 

 counted for, by reason of his employer being called away to Calcutta in 

 1819. I have usually passed by such reports. This one is of less- 

 worth than usual. It is written on China paper, which is uniujured, 

 and the ink will long continue legible. 



Section 2. Account of ceremonial purifications, and other customs of 

 the Smarta Brahmans oi Kerala desam. 



This small and brief document, written on China paper in Telugii 

 characters, is in the Sanscrit language? and will be adverted to,- in the 

 proper place. 



Section 3. Account of Sancardcharya, and the Namhuri Brahmans, 



According to this document Sancardcharya was the illicit son of a 

 widow J born by reason of vows, made in jest, before a Saim emblem. 

 On his birth, his mother was excluded from her tribe, by the Namhuri 

 Brahmans. The child made great progress in learning; and, travelling 

 to Conjeveram, there formed a shrine ; fiom doing which he is herein 

 said to have derived his name. At a later period he laid down 64 rules 

 for observance in the Malayalam country. Some rules were also pres- 

 cribed by Parasu tiama. Copies of these rules, in their substance, are 

 given; thev relate to many matters of daily intercourse, in life; and to 

 various ceremonial observances. 



This document is written on China paper, but not injured; and the 

 ink will long continue legible. There are a few copies of short inscrip- 

 tions in Sanscrit slocas, not of great importance, but to be noted in ano- 

 ther place. 



Manuscript book. No. 3.— Countermark 693. 



The contents of the three first sections of this book, relate to every 



