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and others, as ascribed to Agastya ; among them the Scanda 

 puranam, and Madura puranam, and also part of the preced- 

 ing treatises. It would not be among the least of the marvels 

 ascribed to Agastya, if all that has been attributed to him, in 

 the way of authorship, were really of his composition. 



10. Devaram, hymnology. No. 102. C. M. 159. 



This manuscript contains a collection of chants, which are 

 said to be the productions of Appar, Sundarar, and Sampan- 

 tar ; though by one printed account the collection is restrict- 

 ed to the productions of the two last of the three. Appar was 

 at first a Jama : concerning him and Sampantar, sufficient 

 has been stated in the foregoing portions of my abstracts. 

 Sunday ar is said to have been born in the Nellore district, 

 and trained at Chellambram. The popular account is, that 

 the three poets travelled about, as minstrels, composing 

 I <\hants in honor of the images at different places visited by 

 them ; and such shrines are considered to have received ad- 

 ditional lustre thereby. These chants have a reference to 

 Saiva-shxines. 



The Manuscript wants 23 leaves at the beginning. The 

 remainder is complete : it is only slightly damaged. 



Appended is an Index to the contents of the Tiru-vacha- 

 gam, a kindred production by Mdnica- Vasacar, before no- 

 ticed.* 



11. Manardla-narayana sataca. No. 154. C. M. 172. 

 Another copy 33 153. „ 173. 



These are both complete, and very slightly injured, copies 

 of this poem, of one hundred and one stanzas. The work 

 is of a moral, and didactic kind ; relating in the first in- 

 stance to the appendages of a court, and metropolis ; and 



* The book is entered in the Des. catal. Vol. 1. p. 224. Art. xxxir. 



