1840.] 



Heport on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



119 



Section 5. Account of Indra and Nahuslia raja. 



This is the legend taken from an older purana, with which the Ma- 

 dura *S^'Aa/a puranavi is made to begin: needless to be further detailed. 



Section 'o. Narrative of ZatJa and C^^^a. Some particulars concern- 

 ing the two sons oi Rama of ^yodhya; of no special consequence. 



Note. — The book on the outside is labelled " Tamil kyfeats," as 

 pertaining to a, locality where the Tamil language is spoken ; and is 

 found entered in the Des. Catal. vol. 1, p. 68, art. 34. an^ong Tamil do- 

 cuments. The language is however Mahratti, throughout; and this 

 circumstance, I presume, arises from Mahratta accountants being em- 

 ployed at Tanjore, and latterly also at Madura. Hence I suppose these 

 papers to have been, in part, extracted from cutcherry-papers : the en- 

 tire control of festivals, and of allowances to them, being vested in the 

 Principal Collector of the district. 



The document is in very good preservation; and can at any time be 

 consulted if necessary. 



Manuscript book, No 39.— Countermark 947, account of the capital 

 of Arcot. 



There is, at the opening of this document, some matter which appears 

 to be taken from Ferishta, concerning the origin of the dynasty of Timur 

 Shah. The reign of some of his descendants is adverted to, and then 

 a transit is made to the conquest of the Carnatic by y\lemguir ; and to 

 the Mahomedan ascendancy. Thenceforward there is an account of 

 the government, and fluctuations of power, at Arcot ; with references to 

 Hyder Ali, Tippoo Sultan, and finally to the English. 



Remark. — This document, in the latter part, may be of some value. 

 It is in moderately good preservation; though in some places a little 

 injured by insects. 



It is entered, among Tamil papers in Des. Catal. vol. 1. p. 50, art. 39. 



Manuscript book (on the cover, and first page, No 51 — Countermark 

 488. Bhairaves-vara Cadha, &c. on the contents 25), tales of the 

 Betala and Vicramaditya. 



This Mahratta version of these tales is damaged; and, having been 

 loosened from its proper cover, seems to have been put at random into 

 the covers of a book, the contents of which should be Canarese, with re- 



