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A Supplement to the Six Reports [No. 33, 



purana. At a Bi'ahma.n''s village on the north bank of the Ganges (more 

 probably the Godavery) a cow went out to feed, and was sprung upon by 

 a tiger. The cow earnestly pleaded for permission to go home and suckle 

 its calf; faithfully promising to return and give itself up to the tiger for 

 food. The request being granted, the cow punctually kept its word ; and 

 the celestials struck with such an instance of moderation on the one hand, 

 and of veracity on the other hand, appeared and bestowed beatitude on 

 the tiger, cow, and calf. 



Note. — The manuscript is in very good preservation. It is entered in 

 the Des. Catal., Vol. 1, p. 217, Art. 12. 



7. Mindcshi-pillai Tamil. — A poem on the nursery, No. 194, C. M. 137- 

 This production is a class, or sub-division, of the Prahandhas, or Tamil 



modes of composition; and is relative to the actions of infants. Ten 

 stages of infantile age, and appropriate actions, or gestures, are usually 

 enumerated. The author of this work applies these different stages to 

 the infant Mindcshi, daughter of Mah'yaDhvaja king of Madura, and now 

 tutelary goddess of the chief Saiva fane there. On the actions, or ges- 

 tures of infancy he founds various panegyrical stanzas ; fully illustrative 

 of idolatry in its puerile form. However the work is intended to please, 

 and amuse children, and fitted to instil idolatrous notions into the infan- 

 tile mind ; giving to its puerility a graver character. The ten sections 

 are complete. The last, on rocking in the cradle, applies to the maturity 

 of the ideal deities ; the rocking of which, in a cradle, is one part of the 

 ordinary ser\ice of the fane, usually termed usal, or unjal attal. 



The manuscript is considerably damaged by insects, and has been res- 

 tored on new palm leaves. 



It is entered in Des. Cat, Vol. 1, p. 207, Art. xiv. 



8. Tonda-mandala-satacam, a centum of verses on the Conjeveram coun- 

 try, No. 148, C. M. 73. The satacam is a poem of one hundred stanzas, 

 in its appropriate metre. This is a complete specimen. iThe subject is 

 a panegyric on the country, or district heretofore subject to Tondaman 

 or Adondaij bounded by Tripety, and the Cdlahasti mountains, on the 

 north, by the sea on the east, by thePaZar river on the south, and by the 

 Ghats, or mountain range, on the west. This country is highly extolled, 

 and a special distinction is paid to the Cdchi-ecambesvara fane at Conje- 

 veram. As such, it has a resemblance, in subject, to the opening of the 

 Saiva SChala purdnam of that fane. ' 



Note. — The manuscript is of very recent appearance, and is quite unin- 

 jured. It is entered in Des. Cat., Vol. 1. 



9. Tondaman Cadhai, No. 166, C. M. 



A reference to the four yugas with mention of avatdras, and of some 

 rulers in those ages. The names are not those usually given : and it is 

 added that, in those four ages, Agastya bore four different names. Im- 



