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Addendum. 



[No. 32, 



My meaning does not appear to have been entirely misunderstood. 

 It was a comparative indication. Many M. S. S. either have no 

 dates, or merely cycle dates, or simply the year of a king's reign ; 

 which as Mr. Elliot has remarked in a like case, " in a period ex- 

 tending over some centuries indicates no definite epoch." To find a 

 Saca year, or date by inscription, affords a sort of relief in such in- 

 quiries. So much I meant, and no more. A resolute hand may in- 

 sert a Saca year, or a date quasi of an inscription ; the general cre- 

 dibility of a document requires to be tested ; and though I do not with- 

 draw my comparatively good opinion, yet I do not rely myself on 

 the early part of this document ; nor implicitly on any part. 



The following para, by Mr. Dowson I would compare with one in 

 my fifth report. Mr. D. remarks — " The McKenzie collection con- 

 tains nearly five hundred inscriptions, procured in the country sub- 

 ject to these i^Congu-desa) kings. Some of which probably belong 

 to this dynasty ; but unfortunately none of them appear to have been 

 translated." My fifth report contains the following passage : 



M. S. — Book No. 52, Countermark 1021. "According to the 

 English label this book originally contained copies of inscriptions 

 from the South of India. The number assists in referring to the 

 Des. Cat. Yol. 2, p. 126, from which it appears to have consisted 

 of 126 copies of inscriptions, on stone and copper-plate, from Coim- 

 batore, Caroor, and Darapuram. The book, as received by me, has 

 only the covers : all the inside being wanting. How this loss oc- 

 curred I cannot say ; but I return the envelope simply, as received." 



In my third report there is notice of a connected M. S. Book, No. 

 50, C. M. 1019, which in Section 3d, contains 173 inscriptions from 

 that neighbourhood. The intermediate Book No. 51, C. M. 1020, 

 possibly was lost, or subtracted.* It might have given the remain- 

 ing 191 inscriptions. If however the whole were of no greater value 

 than those in Book No. 50, the loss is not very great. It may not 

 however be a digression to remark how some of these bear on our 

 subject. 



No. 4. — Town of Carur — King Ktdottunga-Chola. 



6. — Gives attestation to a C^o/a conquest of the ancient Covgu- 

 desa. 



, 7.— Date 9th year of Uajendra-demr. 



8. — ^23d of Kulottunga-Chola^ the decapitator of the Pandiya7i, 

 and possessor of Carur. 

 * No. 53 C. M. 1022, is abstracted in my 5th Report : the dates are chiefly modern. 



