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the Uttra-Saiva system, ^vhich maintains the sole supremacy of the 

 virtue and efficacy of all rites, and symbols pertaining to that mode of 

 worship ; and with laudatory praises of those who had gone farthest in 

 their proceedings against votaries of other systems. The writer seems to 

 have been a follower of Basavudu, the Vira Saiva leader. His zeal may be 

 estimated by the extent of his performance. The first part contains 2,000 

 dwi-pada stanzas, the 2d part 2,500, the 3d part 2,120— and these are con- 

 tained in two thin quartos ; being consecutive volumes ; the last of which 

 remains incomplete — the copyist apparently having proceeded no farther. 

 There is much in these narratives borrowed from sources already noticed 

 in these researches; but, as a whole, the document is adapted to throw 

 strong light on the extreme Saiva sect ; to whom, in the days of their 

 power, such an epithet as " mild Hindus" would have been a misnomer. 



No. 4 has suffered a little from the book- worm, but not to a serious de- 

 gree; the other volume remains in moderately good preservation. 



3. Manuscript Book. No. 7, G. M. wanting. 

 Cd.vyalancara-chudarnoMi, a book on rhetoric. 



- A work in the padya-cavyam metre, on Telugu grammar, prosody, 

 tropes, and poetical ornament in general : as such incapable of being ab- 

 stracted. 



It is not complete at the end : and though touched by worms, remains 

 in moderately good preservation. 



4. A fragment of loose papers, without covers, mark, or number. 



1. Account of Sringa-varam near Vizagapatam. The earlier portion 

 of this paper relates entirely to the fabulous origin of some fanes and 

 shrines. It ascribes the first formation of the wilderness into a colony to 

 one named Tri-sida-lhupati, which seems a mere title. Afterwards three 

 classes of aborigines named, respectively, Samralu^ Bhagadulu, and Ga- 

 tamalu, chose for themselves a king or chief, ruling the whole, whose 

 name was Nila-canfha (also an epithet of Ska.) This chiefs son was 

 named Siva Rama, and a few names of his descendants, with very little of 

 incident, follow. The country fell into a state of anarchy : and, at the 

 time when the paper was written, it was under the Honorable Company's 

 Government, paying an annual revenue-tax of ten thousand rupees. 



2. Account of different tribes in the Jaya-pur district; these are 1, tlve 

 Miaka-rajas. 2, the Gailatus. 3, the Sagidi-vandlu. 4, the Sondi-v^ndlu. 

 6, the Ayara-cida people. 



The first are wild people, distinguished from the Condu-vandlu. The 

 second are rude, and given to the use of intoxicating liquor. The 

 third are servile labourers in husbandry ; not, like Hindus, attach- 

 ed to the soil, but working for cooly-hire, or daily wages. The fourth 

 are engaged in drawing the sap of different kinds of palm-trees, the fer- 

 mented juice of which they sell, and live thereby. Some of these are 



