1850. J 



Analysis of Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



similar kind offer little or nothing new ; and certainly nothing new while 

 also of commanding importance. As regards this book all the following 

 details are found to offer nothing more valuable than Sections 3, 4, or 6» 

 They uniformly refer first to the Vijayanagaram, power, then to times of 

 plunder and disorder ; merging in the Mahomedan, and in the Honor- 

 able Company's Government. 



In one place mention is made of Saluva Narasinha-Rayer, setting out 

 from Vijayanagaram, with an army, to destroy a band of desperadoes, 

 who had managed to build a small fort, by means of plunder, which fort 

 he razed to the ground. If otherwise, it might have grown into a me- 

 tropolis ; for most of the Hindu forts were originally robbers' dens. 



One locality is noted as the site of the hermitage of Valmica, who real- 

 ly (according to the papers of this collection) was most luxurious in her- 

 mitages ; for he must have had a great number of them. Traces of the 

 Chola invasion, and some mention of brief Jaina rule, (the Chalukya sup- 

 posed,) occur ; but a Chola conquest does not seem to have occurred ; the 

 army apparently merely encamped on the march to Telingana proper 

 or perhaps was repelled. It must be remembered that the subsequent 

 Vijayanagaram dynasty was powerful, consolidated, and generally effec- 

 tive in government : hence perhaps most of the papers date periods of 

 plunder and robbery in the interval between the Bayer and Mahomedan 

 power. With these remarks, I feel conscious that this book has been ful- 

 ly investigated. 



Note. — It is a rather thick quarto ; generally in good order and 

 preservation, the outer binding excepted, the back having become loose. 

 For the rest it now demands no further attention. 



Manuscript Book, No. 19, C. M. 816. 



Section 1. Account of Balluguntta, a village in the district of Grid- 

 dalur. 



The formation of this village was in Sal. Sac. 1534, in the time of 

 the Re$di -government : the few details which are given are unimpor- 

 tant. 



Section 2. Account of Anumana-palli, in the same district. 

 Its boundaries with reference to Sri-Sailam. 



It was a wilderness, w r hich was cleared, and a village begun in Sal. 

 Sac. 1334. In the time of Achynta-rayer, a brahmin, in power under him, 

 made a grant recorded by inscription, to the village fane, and the custom- 

 ary observances thenceforward proceeded. Nothing further of note oc- 

 curs until the Mahomedan ascendancy. 



Section 3. Account of Gunnam-padu, and Mahadeva-puram, in the 

 same district. 



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