1847.] 



on Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



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written before he went from India; or had adopted the tenets of the 

 Gocinian system. 



. The manuscript is a little damaged by insects. It does not appear in 

 the Des. Catal. and wants on the label the usual marks of classification. 

 It has however all the other marks which distinguish the Mackenzie 

 manuscripts. 



4. Udaya Cmnara Cavyam. A poem No. 162, C. M. 148. 



This is apparently a fictitious poem, of which the hero is Udaya Cumara, 

 Two leaves at the beginning are wanting ; but afterguards is found a refer- 

 ence to Vicrama ruling in the Magadha country, whose son-in-law stated 

 to be Satanica renounced his kingdom, and resorted to a life of penitential 

 austerity. From a collateral stem Udaya Cuinara (son of the dawn) waa 

 born. His virtues, accomplishments, marriage, perfections of his wife, 

 and splendour of his court are panegyrized. Probably some indirect pa- 

 rallel or flattery vfas intended to some other ruling prince. The metre is 

 a species of viruttam ; the palm leaves, and the writing are in good condi- 

 tion ; and, but for the two deficient leaves at the beginning, it would be 

 complete. It is entered into Bes. Catal. Vol. 1, p. 221, Art. 25. 



5. MoMyulla-nataca, a drama. No. 126, C. M. 636. 



This is a sort of polemical drama containing a medley of all sorts of ver- 

 sification. Its object is to teach the Tdtva system; but whether in jest or 

 earnest, seems doubtful. A king is represented as renouncing his king- 

 dom, and retiring to a wilderness, v*^herein he meets with recluses. He 

 utters some words expressive of contempt ; which leads them to utter lan- 

 guage of contempt, referring to the. Christian and Mahomedan systems of 

 religion. He takes up some parts of their words, and shows what is his 

 view of sin, and v/hat is not sin. Another play of words occurs on the 

 term Blati, and this leads the kingly sage to define what is worth or sense, 

 and what is not worth or sense. 



At last the recluses in the wilderness conceive the stranger to be a 

 wonderful man, and beg him to instruct them in the Tatva system, such 

 as in various parts of these papers has been explained. To this request 

 he assents ; and the instruction, in which there is much equivoque, follows. 

 The probability is that the whole is a farce for the stage, heaping con- 

 tempt and sarcasm, on every thing that bears the name and style of 

 religion. ' 



The palm leaves are injured by insects; but the book is complete. I 

 do not find it entered in the Des. Cat. though it has some of the classifi- 

 cation marks, and all the other usual ones. 



6. Capila vasacam, No. 143, C. M. 135. 



A mere tale, symbolical perhaps, but more probably a puerile excres- 

 cence, arising out of the veneration felt for the cow : as it occurs more 

 than once in the Mackenzie papers, it is probably an extract from a local 



