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A Supplement to the Six Reports [No. S3, 



Renunciation of all sensual affections, attachments, and earthly pas- 

 Bions, renders the human nature divine. Future transmigrations derive 

 their character, and degree, from the degree of merit, or demerit in a pre- 

 \ious state of being. These are a few of the outlines of the production ; 

 i\ hich is not complete in this work. The paper is exceedingly good, the 

 ink a little pale in some places, but quite legible. 



10. Manuscript Book. No. 3, C. M. 757. 



In this book there are genealogical accounts of five Paliya-carers^ or 

 ]ocal chieftains of the Coimhatore and Dindigul provinces ; with a genea- 

 logical notice of the ancestors of a Brahman, Manager of a fane in that 

 neighbourhood; and some topical notices of a few places thereabouts : 

 but the book is here adverted to, on account of the first paper, which pos- 

 sesses to give an account of early aboriginal rulers at Pyney. The names 

 nppearing to be purely native, and not Sanscrit epithets. I am doubtful 

 of the authenticity of the account, but think that it may be returned to, 

 and investigated at leisure. Another section contains an account of the 

 Cuneivar^ a wild-tribe ; named from living on Cunrukal (hills) who are 

 ©f ill© class of mountaineers, already repeatedly adverted to. They 

 dwell on the Panri-mali, and other hills, of the Viriipacsha district. Their 

 manners and customs very much resemble those of the other Travancore 

 mountaineers, which have been heretofore stated. Their women are 

 never allowed to wear white clothes; and one custom in reference to 

 them is peculiar; which is that any woman guilty of adultery is said to be 

 adjudged to be cast headlong from the top of a rock, and that the sentence 

 has been repeatedly put in execution. The section giving an account of 

 this people is in Teliigu. The other contents of the book are in Tamil. 

 It is in very good preservation, and on the points noted as meriting fur- 

 ther attention, as well as in the details, concerning local chieftains, can at 

 any time be referred to, as being likely to last uninjured for many years. 



Manuscript Book. No. 1, C. M. 47. 



JPalani Pnranam.j the legend of Pyney. 



From this very large book 13 sections were abstracted in my fourth 

 report, and 5 others, down to section IS, in my fifth report. 



Section 19th legend of Siva giri and Sacta giri. Siva and Parvati were 

 transformed into two mountains. Vyasa, cautions Suta risM not to tell 

 the secret of these mountains. The birth of Suhrahmanya is narrated. 

 When Sura-padma the racshasa disturbed the gods, six sparks issued 

 from the frontlet eye of Siva ; these he gave in charge to Ganga. The six 

 eparks became six children. They were nourished by six females, forming 

 the six stars in the Critica Nacshetra {Pleiades). Parvati took these six 

 children, and by holding them close together the bodies were united, the 

 heads only remained distinct. (Hieroglyphic for a great bodily prowess, 

 and superior intellectual faculties). When yet a child Suhrahmanya went 

 to Ganda mitanam hill near to Pyney, All the gods, Brahma included, 



