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minor details, respecting sixteen villages; ^tbe whole occupying 

 only a few octavo pages, and containing lists of villages, and ma).tters 

 therewith connected, of no consequence. 



Section 4,iibeing stated in the index to contain an account of Budam^ 

 a ruined city, attracted more special attention. On examination, it 

 appears that iheJainas held an ascendancy, and built this town, in the 

 llepalli district. But discussions arose between them and the Brah- 

 mans, which led to the persecution and punishment of the Bauddhas 

 (which last term is also used). The town which they once inhabited, be- 

 coming depopulated, went to decay, and finally to ruin; and the ruins 

 are stated to be extensive ; while, according to common report, amidst 

 the ruins there are buried images, and other remains, of the Bauddha^ 

 and Jaina, system of ritual worship. 



Section 5. Relates to a village called Buda-palli ; deriving its name 

 also from a Bauddhist founder ; but concerning which there is nothing 

 particular, claiming special notice. 



The remaining four sections are occupied with very brief accounts of 

 twenty-two villages, and one agraharam, so minute and unimportant as 

 to claim no further attention. 



Remark. — The book is only an octavo, firmly bound ; the ink good 

 the country paper in some places is a little damaged by worms; but 

 all that is required to its effective preservation, is the being occasionally 

 opened, and exposed to the air: the neglect of which precaution has 

 given occasion to much of the damage sustained by the collection. 



Manuscript book, No. 42.--Countermark 796. 



The SVhala mahatmya of T'lrukola-liudi fane, in the Siva-gangai 

 district. 



This paper, not noted in the table of contents, has been pasted into 

 the book, and is contained on three pages of country paper. 



At the request of ^^a^ifya and Pulasfhya, Siva usually resident on 

 Kaiian-giri {or Cailasa), came hither, and taught instructions conforma- 

 ble to the Saiva system ; while seven sactis also became resident there, 

 whence the fane is sometimes called by the name of Siva, sometimes by 

 that of the sactis aforesaid. The legend is of no other use, than to add 

 an item of evidence to the first planting of the Saiva system in the ex- 

 treme south. 



