1847.] 



on Mackenzie ManuBcripts. 



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a fane to Renuca devi a denii goddess. A man wished to get an inter- 

 view with the king, but could not succeed ; and being told that the only- 

 way to see the king was to commit some crime, there being very little 

 care of government exercised, he assumed a power of levying tribute on 

 bodies carried to be burned. The result was at length, that a complaint 

 reacITed Ihe eai*^ o? the king : and-th^ king eventually made him his Mi- 

 nister. 



Eemakk, — There is a resemblance in the leading feature of the tale to 

 a traditionary statement, mentioned in my abstract of MS. Book No. 14, 

 Sect. 10, 2d Eeport A tradition of the kind popularly exists: the precise 

 value of it I do not know. The book is fresh, and complete. Any entry 

 in the Des. Catalogue does not appear. 



21. Tiru-vdvinan-kudi-antathi. No. 156, C. M. 174. 



There are three documents tied up in this book ; the first has the above 

 title, and is a series of ten chants, each of ten stanzas, laudatory of Siva^ 

 composed by Sahralunanya desyar son of Amhala vana desyar. It is com= 

 plete. 



The second is entitled Tiru cachur nondi natacam, a thief of the Irmn- 

 ba-?iad, named Gada viram (apparently fictitious names), having no children 

 did homage to the god of thieves in the kallar district near Madura, and 

 in consequence had sons. One of these went and exercised his thievish 

 vocation in the Madura country. The other plundered in the city of the 

 Aurungabad padshah. The former having been cheated of the stolen 

 property at Madura, came to Triplicane near Madras, where he stole the 

 Nabob's horse, and in consequence had his arras and legs cut off. But 

 going to Tiru-cachur, a village 30 miles south of Madras, he thei^ per- 

 formed homage to the idol ; and in consequence had his arms and legs 

 restored, the power of the image at that shrine is thereby intended to be 

 magnified. This nataca was written by Varata-pillai, the father of a Na- 

 tive Moonshee, some time since in my employ. 



The third document contains a few leaves, the contents being ten 

 stanzas in praise of Tiyagara^ a name and form of Siva, worshipped at 

 Tiruporur, about 20 miles south of Madras. 



The three documents are complete, the first of them slightly touched 

 by insects, the other two quite uninjured. 



The document is entered in the Des. Cat., Vol. 1, p. 226, Art. 45, in 

 which title Avidam is merely an orthographical error for Avinan^ the 

 epithet tiru or sacred, being usually prefixed; being another name of 

 Pyney. 



22. TiniMtantdUii. No. 1098, C. M. 1075. 



A poem containing one hundred stanzas of the viruttam'kin^, in praise 

 of a Jaina image and shrine ; by a Jaina author. Being defective at the 

 end, the name of the writer, or locality of the shrine, does not appear in 

 the document. 



