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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



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Note. — The table of contents, as entered at the head of the boolCp 

 may be seen on reference to the Des. Catalogue vol. 2. p. 50, art. 42.. 

 According to that table there should be six sections, referring to Chit- 

 toor, to Vellore and Arcot, to Chingleput, to Sadras, to Gingee, and 

 Frivalore, not a word* answering to which indications is to be found, 

 rhe index must have been prepared for other matter ; and the docu- 

 ments herein contained, put in perhaps at the discretion of a native 

 muchi, or binder. However, now that the real contents are ascertained 

 ind appreciated, the mistake ceases to be of consequence. 



Manuscript book, No. 32.— Countermark 722. 



Appended to the full, and interesting, account of the princes of War- 

 mkal, abstracted in my last report, is a paper concerning Calyanapat- 

 mm, then adverted to, and deferred until the palm-leaf MS. No. 128, Ba- 

 iaimnna Calagndna, had been examined. Though both relate to the 

 Fira Saiva sect, and to Bassavanna, as one of its distinguished promo* 

 ers, yet the subjects of the two works differ. This appendix is there- 

 fore here resumed. 



It is entitled an account of the minister of Fijala raja^ who ruled in 

 ;he town of Kulydna. 



The elder and younger Basavesudu w^ere the founders, or revivers, of 

 heJangama sect. Pedda tanda Basava, the elder, is stated to have been 

 m incarnation of Nandi, the bullock-vehicle of Siva; sent down, by an 

 igreement between Siva and Parvaii, to restore and spread the Vira- 

 Saiva system. Chena Basava was his sister'jj son, or his nephew. Va° 

 •ious narratives are introduced, and among them that of Kuna Pandt^ 

 fan, who destroyed the Samunas at Madura; and is, in consequence 

 lumbered among the Jangama votaries, by themselves. The great to- 

 pic is the overthrow and extermination of the Jainas, which every 

 where seems to have been accomplished by means of ultra Saivas^ 

 The precise locality of Kalyanapur is doubtful j but it was in the north- 

 ivest part of the peninsula, where the Jaina system, under various ru- 

 lers, greatly prevailed. The two Basavas every where exterminated 

 [ht Jainas: and, at length, effected the death of Fijala-raja, their mas- 

 ter, who was a Jaina» On this subject there is prospectively much to 

 come. The present document is therefore now dismissed j with the 

 sole further remark, that it is in very good preservation. 



* Since the above was written I have discovered that the inUex, proper to No. 41 wag 

 bound up in tliis book, and vice versa. 



