MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No, 32. Januanj — June, 1847. 



1."— Translation of the Kongu-desa-rajakaL By the Rev. 

 William Taylok, 



INTRODUCTION. 



At an early period of my analysis of the Mackenzie Manu= 

 scripts, I had occasion to introduce a Notice* of the work enti° 

 tied Congu-desa-rajdkal, and to give a brief indication of its 

 general characteristics. It does not seem to me that, in writ- 

 ing that notice, I had retained any special recollection of hav- 

 ing before adverted to it ; as in Orient. Hist. M. S. translated, 

 vol. 2, p. 63 ; which may be accounted for, by my always dis- 

 liking to look again at that work : an aversion the impropriety 

 of which I have only recently seen. A sentence or two from 

 the page adverted to, may be here introduced : " This Manu- 

 script appears peculiarly valuable from being the only one, as 

 is conceived, bearing on this section of the south country." 

 " The plan of printing Manuscripts verbatim with literal 

 translations, as the foundation of general inferences from the 

 whole, at a future period, is the only means of providing a 

 safe chart to the general historian, in this long neglected, and 



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