90 



Analysis of Mackenzie Manuscripts. [No. 87, 



under Bama-deva-rayer of Anagundi, at Bayadurga (or Baydroog) ; and 

 against the raja of Guti (Gooty) also a local chieftain. He afterwards 

 served Pratapa Rudra of Warranhal ; and was engaged in various con- 

 tests with the Mahomedans : among others in that which issued in the 

 capture of Pratapa Pudra, and the conquest of his kingdom ; in which 

 war Cumara-jRama was killed. 



There is a filling up of matter in the Hindu taste, and style of writ- 

 ing. The sum total is that Cumara-Itama the son of a local chief, was 

 an able and brave General, and this account of his life is not without 

 use, in illustrating or filling up any account of the wars with the Ma- 

 homedans, which ended in the overthrow of the Vijayanagara, and Wa- 

 rankal kingdoms. 



Remark. — No. 3 is injured by insects ; and No. 4 is incomplete. 



The M.S.S. are entered in Des. Catal. vol. 2, p. 37, with a somewhat 

 long and full abstract. 



Lingayana chcritra, or account of a Jangama ascetic, No. 45, CM. 

 486. 



An account of the adventures of a Jangama ascetic, of no value"; un- 

 less an illustration of native manners, in reference to this debased class 

 of votaries, may be deemed of consequence. It is stated that the person, 

 in question, was coveted by one of the females of a king at Hampi, or 

 Anagundi ; who despatched a female messenger to negociate with him : 

 she brought him into the palace, and subsequently dismissed him, in the 

 garb of a Jangama, unknown to the king. The ascetic then retired to a 

 wilderness ; and acquired some little intellectual instruction from ano- 

 ther ascetic. He then wandered as far as Seringapdtam ; where the wife 

 of a man of quality hospitably entertained him, in the said character ; 

 but afterwards seduced him, as the book states, into an intrigue. The 

 lady's husband discovered him, and cut him in two, with a sword ; but 

 his body miraculously healed of itself: and the avenger became a sup- 

 pliant before him. The ascetic then wandered to Sri-sailam ; and ulti- 

 mately went to Catfasa ; that is, died. A certain Tamberan, or Vira- 

 Saiva ascetic, who made in the end a profession of Christianity, was, by 

 his own account, such a wandering devotee, only it may be charitably 

 hoped, his end was better. But this whole mendicant fraternity of that 

 particular class afford an exhibition of the most odious parts of the Saiva 

 credence, carried out to an excrescence, to monstrosity and depravity of 

 the lowest degree. 



Eemark. — The book is old, a little touched by insects; but complete, 

 and in moderate preservation. I do not find it entered in the Des. Cata- 

 logue. 



