126 A Supplement to the Six Beports o [No. S3, 



Note. — It is a little damaged by insects,^aitd wants seven stanzas at the 

 end. It is entered in the Des. Cat., Vol. 1, p. 162, Art. ^1. 



23. Rangha-tantathi. No. 146, C. M. 168. 



A defective production \^ Pillai-perunihl ayengar, one of the managers 

 at Srirangham fane, in praise of Rangha svami, the form of Vishnu wor- 

 shipped in that fane. It wants forty leaves at the beginning ; but the re- 

 mainder of the fragment is right. It has a mixture of poetical stanzas, 

 with a prose explanation. It is a little damaged by insects. 



Note. — It is entered in Des. Cat., Vol. 1, page 225, Art. 40. 



24. Tiru-tondar-yacKhaganam. No. 124, C M. 89. 



A poem of the viruttam kind, with prose version, the subject being low 

 adventures ascribed to Siva^ disguised as a jangama votary. The sub- 

 ject chiefly relates to modes of hospitality, in reference to eating and 

 lodging ; shown to a wandering incarnation of Siva. 



Note. — The manuscript is complete, and in good preservation. It is 

 entered in Des. Cat, Vol. 1, p. 203, Art. 20. 



25. Vaidya balachi kitchai. No. 84, C. M. 247. 



This old book is a fragment: according to the No. on the first leaf, 2S8, 

 foregoing leaves are wanting. It is defective in other places, and does not 

 finish at the end. Various descriptions of diseases incidental both to 

 children and adults, are mentioned ; and the remedies are connected with 

 charms, and mingled up, with cabalistical figures : apparently mere devices 

 to impose superstitious reverence on the vulgar. They may contain 

 spells more potent than I suppose. An entry of the MS. occurs in Des. 

 Cat., Vol. 1, p. 259, Art. 4. 



26. Neduvalal palaiya patta kyfeyut. No. 230, C. M. 110. 



This is one of the Madura districts ; and the account is very similar to like 

 documents, several of which have been abstracted. It is the district in 

 which the fane of Alaga Swami is situated. The origin of that fane is pla- 

 ced in the time of the Pa«%« kings : but the chieftainship commenced with 

 the new dynasty from the North. Except the names of chiefs, nothingfur- 

 ther illustrative of the history of the south appears. Indeed very little 

 incident down to the war against Tanjore. Subsequently the details are 

 minute ; but only with reference to the local district. After the troubles 

 induced by the Mahomedans it gives the names of two chiefs who, by 

 their titles, I recognize to be Maravas, who usurped a temporary power 

 over the Madura kingdom. Other manuscripts mention the same usur- 

 pation ; but without defining the country of those chiefs. This may be 

 the Marava ascendancy over the Madura kingdom which Veda nayak, a 

 servant of Col. Mackenzie, by an anachronism places in the time of the 

 old Pandiya kings and antecedent to the northern dynasty; concerning 

 which I have been able to discover no satisfactory traces. But such a 

 usurpation at the close of the northern dynasty, in the midst of troubles, 

 introduced by Chanda Saheb^ no doubt did occur. In his manuscript 



