PREFACE. 



The volumes from which this Index has been prepared 

 are sixty-two volumes of Local Records. These Local 

 Records were collected during the years 1800 and 1804 by 

 Colonel Colin Mackenzie, the well known and indefatigable 

 Surveyor- General of India. The originals, being written 

 on perishable country paper, seemed to be doomed to certain 

 destruction, as time and worms were treating them badly, 

 when Mr. C. P. Brown, the great Telugu scholar, had them 

 re-written and deposited in the Oriental MSS. Library in 

 the form in which they are now preserved. Some portions 

 of the records do not appear to have been copied, as 

 Mr. Brown says that he " omitted much hackneyed mytho- 

 logy, and also such lists of names and accounts of money 

 matters as seemed worthless." 



The languages in which these records are written are 

 Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindustani, Tamil, Canarese, and Telugu ; 

 but though Tamil and Canarese papers occur, often Telugu 

 prevails to such an extent that it is only missing in 19 

 volumes, while 24 volumes are entirely in Telugu. 1 



The Index contains a reference to all names of persons, 

 sects, races, places, temples, rivers, mountains, and all other 

 objects of interest alluded to in these volumes, the Roman 



(l) In Telugu are written Vols. 1-10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 33, 34, 

 35, 47, 55, 59, and 62 ; in Tamil Vols. 51, 52, 53 and 58 ; in Canarese 

 Vols. 24 and 61 ; Vols. 12, 15, 21, 36-39, 41, 42, 44, 48, 56, 57, and 60 

 contain Telugu and Sanskrit ; Vols. 25-32 Canarese and Sanskrit ; Vols. 

 11, 18, 23, 43, 45, 46, and 49 Telugu, Canarese, and Sanskrit ; Vol. 54 Telugu, 

 Tamil, and Canarese ; Vol. 50 Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, and Sanskrit ; and 

 Vol. 40 Telugu, Hindustani, Marathi, and Sanskrit. The records written in 

 Hindustani and Marathi are furnished with a vernacular translation. 



