72 Sixth Report on Mackenzie Manuscripts. [No. 30. 



copies, old and recent, leaves are mingled. They are in mo- 

 derately good preservation, though with slight exceptions.* 



11. Andhra-sabda, Caumudi. No. 33. C. M. 488. 



This is a fragment of nearly seven palm leaves, of recent 

 appearance, and writing, from what, if complete, would be a 

 large Manuscript. The work properly is a rhetorical, or 

 poetical, grammar, on the art of poetry. If this be the copy 

 originally supplied to the collection, it is as gross a fraud as 

 could be made ; but since the appearance of the leaves and 

 writing, indicate neither more, nor less than ten or twelve 

 years, for its age, it is just possible, that it may be a fraudulent 

 substitute at some recent period for the original copy.f 



12. Bassavana-Calagnyanam, No. 128. C. M. 332. 



This Manuscript relates to the period of Pratapa-Rudra of 

 Warankal ; apparently the last of that name, who was cap- 

 tured by the Mahomedans. But the chief subject of the 

 book is to detail the progress, and success, of the Vira-Saivd 

 sect, or ultra-class of Saivas, sometimes termed Jangamas ; 

 of whom Bassava?ina, or Bassavesvara, was a distinguished 

 votary, and minister of Vijala-raja. This sect proceeded on 

 the principle of subduing, and exterminating, opposers by any 

 means whatsoever ; whether of force, fraud, or guile. Battles 

 and slaughter are narrated in this work. According to the 

 title of Calagiiyanam, or " knowledge of time," it contains i 

 statements, assumed to be prophetic, as given forth by Siva J 

 with regard to future events. This notice is very brief, and 

 insufficient. Let me add therefore that, not so much with 

 respect to history as to manners, it might be desirable to 

 have a translation. It is written in rather elevated prose, is 

 complete ; and, on the whole is in tolerably good preservation.}: 



* Note.— They are entered in the Des. catal. Vol. 1. p. 329. Art. 33. 



t It is entered without any note of defect in Des. catal. Vol. 1. p. 354 Art. 5. 



t Note.- It is entered in Des. catal. Vol. 1. p. 313. Art. 18. 



