1847.] 



on Macken^m- Mmuscripis. 



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ed a little a trandom, judging^^rom the mixture: reaching to the era of 

 the Magadha kingdom. The name of Srenica malm raja is given, with 

 the addition that he ruled 2540 years ago (to be reckoned backwards 

 from A. D. 1817.) The end of the virtuous period and commencement 

 of the Qali Yucja is dated 2480 years since. (These valuable dates the 

 BauddJias are known to preserve by means of memorial verses ; and the 

 latter gives, for the beginning of the cali-yuga, the date A. C. 463.) The 

 next point mentioned is the rule of Sacyu or Sacai, dated 1739 years 

 backward, {Sacya of course means Sdlivahana, and Sal. Sacai. 1739) — 

 corresponds with A. D. 1817. The cliola rajas are then mentioned as 

 ruling in this country ; that is, the southern part of the Peninsula. A 

 seemingly credible list is given down to Adondai. The kingdom was 

 afterwards broken up, divided into various portions and the ciirumhars 

 acquired an ascendancy. The chola rule lasted about one thousand years. 

 Afterwards the Mahomedans ruled 120 years : and some names of their 

 chiefs are specified. After them the English had ruled during seventeen 

 years, when the account was written. 



3. The story of Vencatapati nay ah. This narrative has before been 

 given (see 1st Report MS. Book No. 12, Sec. 2.) It relates to a trick 

 played upon a district chieftain by some Jainas, and his revenge leading 

 him to persecute and exterminate the Jamas. 



4. The periodical deluge. This document also has been abstracted in 

 a foregoing paper. (See 1st Report MS. Book No. 12, Sec. 1.) 



5. Claims of the Jaina fane at Chittamur. It is a principal one. Kulot- 

 tunga Chola gave it a revenue of 4,000 Pagodas, afterwards inequitably 

 reduced by the Mahomedans to 60 Pagodas, concerning^ which reduction 

 a complaint is preferred to the Honorable Company. Copy. Compare 

 with MS. Book No. 12, Sections 5 and 6. 



Remahk.^ — The second part, or section of this MS. is valuable. Accord- 

 ingly I have noticed it rather fully. The book being in good preserva- 

 tion, it can at any time be consulted in verification. I note merely that 

 adding to A. D. 463, the amount of nearly nine centuries, the discovered 

 interpolation of the Brahmans, we ascend to about A. C. 1300, and at A. 

 C. 1200, from Ilindtt records solely, I had heretofore placed the com- 

 mencement of the Cali-yuga, with the conjecture that it must certainly be 

 placed later. Let no one therefore hastily contemn researches which 

 evidently have a tangible bearing. Fixing the commencement of the Cali- 

 yuga in the 5th century before the Christian era, I am certain of the great 

 outlines of history downwards ; with very much of the needful filling up 

 of details. Antecedently, the pauranical enigmas require solution ; and 

 their solution, whenever successfully efi'ected, will show results which I 

 can mentally anticipate ; but which must be analytically, and not hypothe- 

 ticaily demonstrated. 



