C4 Analysis of Mackenzie Manuscripts. [No. 37,, 



Tradition ascribes the formation of a fort, on the top of this hill, to Bi- 

 jala-Bayen (a Chalukya king) and states that he, with his people of the 

 Jainas, lived there, as also that from the number of stone masons resid- 

 ing near, it acquired the name of Silpa-giri. Fanes are built around it 

 for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina, 

 or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned. Silpa-giri was the capital of 

 Bijala rayen. In many documents that capital is termed Kaly ana-pur am 

 a mere epithet. 



Every notice relative to Bijala-rayer, is of consequence ; because his 

 reign forms a marked and extraordinary epoch in the history of the Pe- 

 ninsula. 



In this said section, it is said that after this time, and in Sal. Sac. 

 1430, the ruler at Vijayanagaram made some additions to the place ; 

 and the year 1450, mentioned in connection with the reign of Crishna 

 rayer is noted as the period of further appendages. The conclusion is 

 that, at a time antecedent to S. S. 1400, the Jainas (that is the Chalu- 

 kya rajas) were in power ; while after the ravages committed by the 

 Vira Saivas, in exterminating the former, the place lapsed by its own 

 weakness, or by conquest, into the power of the sovereigns of Vijaya- 

 nagaram. 



Eemark. — The book is well bound in boards; the ink permanent ; 

 and the country paper with a very slight exception at the end, is in 

 perfect preservation. 



Manuscript Book, No. 25, C. M. 822. 



This book contains details of more than thirty villages; some of them 

 being entirely the property of different fanes, free of tax. The details 

 are all from Sal. Sac. 1300 downwards to the accession of the Maho- 

 medan power; and during this interval, of two or three hundred years, 

 references to the rulers at Vijayanagaram, and TVarankal, occur with 

 various statements, as to the foundation of villages and agraharams. 

 Occasionally copy of an inscription is given, with reference to dona- 

 tions to fanes. The place, termed Jambula Maddugu. is traditionally 

 stated to have been the site of some great battle, in which kings were 

 engaged, and in which some of them were slain. 



Upon the whole, with our previous knowledge, the evidence of this book 

 is unimportant. To one leading fact it bears testimony, in common 

 with similar books. This is the waste, or wilderness state anciently of 

 the country, usually termed the Ceded Districts. The clearing it seems 

 to have been subsequently to Sal. Sac. 1000; and what history can we 

 expect of a wilderness ; or what beyond the fables and racshasas of the 



