and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



175 



August, 1843, accompanies an explanation, and T shall be happy to trans- 

 mit copy of his somewhat fuller analysis of the work, should such ; be 

 deemed desirable. 



Madras, ^ I have the honor to be, &c. 



Pursewaukum, £ (Signed) W. Taylor, 



February \$th, 1844. 3 Missionary. 



EXTRACT. 



"The ground on which I take this freedom is your having laid me 

 under real obligations in your reports of the Mackenzie MSS. which 

 first led me to search for Malayalam historical manuscripts. I obtained 

 in the course of these four years above a dozen of such, and tried to res- 

 tore the original text, at least in those parts which merited the attention 

 of an European — much that is not original, deserved in my opinion to be 

 preserved in brackets, either for the elucidation of portions treated too 

 briefly, or in order to make the manuscript, by variety of style, more in- 

 teresting to the student of the language. The result has been this little 

 compilation. 



"(Signed) H. Gun debt." 



Resolved, — That in communicating the thanks of the Society to the 

 Rev. H. Gundert for the same, he be informed that the Society would feel 

 much obliged to him for his analysis of the work. 



At a 3Ieeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society 

 and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held on Friday evening, the 

 22d March, 1844. 



Read the following letter from the Rev. W. Taylor, dated 22d Febru- 

 ary, 1844, transmitting at the suggestion and request of Walter Elliot, 

 Esq., a paper on some Malayalam inscriptions by the Rev. H. Gundert, 



To 



The Secretary Madras Literary Society. 



8fc. tyc. 8fc. 



Sir, 



At the suggestion and request of Walter Elliot, Esq., I have the honor 

 to transmit to you the accompanying paper on some Malayalam antiqui- 

 ties by the Rev. H. Gundert of Tellicherry, received by me from him 

 last month, with his letter to me dated 2d ultimo, giving me permis- 

 sion to make the present use of the paper, if I thought proper, after it 

 had been seen by Mr. Elliot. 



