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Analysis of Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



[No. 37, 



had a successor. A chief termed merely Pratapa came hither, and re- 

 ceiving no attention from the Jainas, in the neighbourhood of ManargMdi, 

 he took offence, and wrote to the Tondaman ruling at Vencata-giri (or 

 Tripety) desiring authority to destroy the Jama fanes ; which being conced- 

 ed to him he overthrew a great many of them. At a later period under 

 the Government of Achyuta Rayer and Rama-rayer, an individual obtain- 

 ed from them a grant of two villages. This person was afterwards directed 

 to go to the south, and settle wherever he should be instructed by the ap- 

 pearance of a light. He did so at a place, where now only a fane remains ; 

 bearing the name of Dipam gudi (village of a torch or flame.) The only 

 remaining matter relates to a surreptitious entry by night into a fane, 

 by means of a false key, and to violence committed ; since which time 

 the place has continued closed. 



A document containing an account of the Mahrattas follows ; but is 

 not included in the table of contents, at the beginning. One Naraayna- 

 rao, compiled it from another book. The epitomized details are so simi- 

 lar to those of other accounts heretofore abstracted, as not to call for fur" 

 ther information, or notice. 



General Remarks. — The contents of this book are very generally 

 in good preservation. Sections 8 and 9, are very slightly touched by 

 insects : all the rest is perfect, the 2d and 3d Sections concerning the 

 Jainas are of some value. 



Manuscript Book, No. 11, C. M. 887. 



Section 2. Account of Humcha, between the Western Ghauts. 

 (This document only is in Mahratti, all the other papers in the book 

 being Canarese). 



Anciently the place was a wilderness dwelt in by Verdars. A Jaina 

 ruler obtained ascendancy. His name was Juia-danda raja. Some of 

 his descendants are mentioned. He had three sons, one of them, Juice* 

 danda, having married beneath him, was obliged to fly from a conspiracy 

 to take away his life. He took refuge in Bidanur. Afterwards he con- 

 quered his brother, who had formed designs against his life. He 

 cleared the country, and built Humcha. He is represented as conquer- 

 ing by paying homage to Devi; or, in other words, becoming a Hindu 

 proselyte. He afterwards built shrines and fanes, which are enume- 

 rated. 



Note. — This paper is in good preservation, and it explains another 

 paper, in. Canarese, referring to the same individual, which was found 

 to end abruptly. 



