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founded. Information concerning Delhi as Mahomedan, is not needed. 

 The document may however merit reference, It is but brief. 

 Section 8. Account of Hemaudi Paid. 



A Padshah one day sent for a Brahman of the said name, and inquir- 

 ed from him concerning past history. He requested six months to sup- 

 ply an account, and three months were accorded. Then follows a tale, 

 as if delivered by Hemauda Pant, of the wildest possible extravagance; 

 having reference to a battle between a Gossain, and a serpent. It must 

 be entirely enigmatical. Faint indications occasionally suggest the idea 

 that Vicramaditya and Sxlivahana, may have been allegorically intend- 

 ed. The document appears to me of no value. 



Section 9. Account of the Bhosala race, and the Peishwah. 



This narrative is very similar to others, referring to the same people, 

 before noted, and abstracted. It is quite superfluous to do more than 

 mention the general subject for comparison, if need require, with other 

 papers. 



Section 10. Account of Poonah. 



At first a small village, increasing by degrees. Its being twice pillaged 

 by Alumgeer, seems to have added to its celebrity. Subsequent details 

 are full ; but they have been, more or less, adverted to, in notices of 

 other accounts, relative to the same capital. This document is incom- 

 plete at the end; apparently from a leaf or two being omitted in the 

 binding. 



General Remark. — This book, as a whole, has suffered damage from 

 termites ; but the injury done has been limited to the covers and outer 

 margins. Where country paper is used part of the writing has been in- 

 jured, but in documents of no consequence. Sections 1, 9 and 10 are 

 the most valuable ; and these having been copied on Europe paper, have 

 escaped injury. The ink with which they are written is good. The 

 other documents are not worth the labor, and expense of restoration. 



- Manuscript Book, No. 43, C. M. 732. 



Genealogical account of Vencatapa-nayah of Surapur and Gudigundi 

 in the Hyderabad country. 



The ancestry of this local chief is carried up very high, as far back as 

 the days of Valmica;but it appears that the founder of the family was, in 

 reality, a soldier of fortune, who served in various parts of the peninsula ? 

 and at length, obtained a fief under Ali Adil Shah of Visiapur ; of which 

 Devi pari and Shahpur, were the principal towns. After one or two des- 

 cents, a division occurred between several sons. One of these, favoured 

 by the Shah, founded Gudigundi, Various family details follow. One 



