TO Sixth Report on Mackenzie Manuscripts. fNo. 30. 



to me to negative the assertion, which has been very confi- 

 dently made, in the analysis of Ancient and Hindu Mythology 

 by. Col. Vans Kennedy, that a Triad, with one pervading 

 mind is a dogma unknown to Hinduism. The work I think 

 is valuable. Very different, and very greatly depreciated 

 (to use a gentle term), are the views and dogmas, both of the 

 Vaishnavas and Saivas of the Peninsula ; especially of the 

 ultra-classes ; as the readers of these reports cannot but have 

 perceived. This book is also opposed to the Advaita system 

 of Saricaracharya and his followers : who deny the reality of 

 any distinction between the Divine Being and the human 

 soul. I have long wished to trace (these) depreciations, differ- 

 ences and oppositions, in a distinct Essay, which I think 

 would be a subject of commanding interest and utility ; if 

 performed by no better hand, I may one day hope to make 

 the endeavour. 



Note. — The, .manuscript is old, and has several leaves injured by wear, 

 and partial breaking by reason of -usage ; it wants only the first leaf which 

 probably would only have the invocation and name of the translator. The 

 commencement itself of the treatise is found ; some breaks in the coheren- 

 cy of the composition, arise, » p rom the injury sustained. On the whole this 

 is a document which I should like to see well translated : with moderate 

 care it will last, as it is, for some years. It is entered in the Des. Catal* 

 Vol. 1. p. 348. Art. 70. 



7. Vijaya-vilasa, a Poem, No. 45. C. M. 462. 



Reference to the five Pandavas, and to Draupadi their 

 wife. The adventure of Arjuna in recovering the stolen 

 cow of a Brahman. Arjuna? s pilgrimage to the great rivers in 

 the Peninsula. Near the Godavery river he formed a loose 

 marriage with Uluchi, a woman of an outcast tribe. Going 

 to Manipuram (jewel town), a mutual attachment arose be- 

 tween him and Chitrangada the King's daughter ; a son 

 being the issue of their marriage. After a circuitous pil- 

 grimage, Arjuna went to the Court of Crishna, where he 



