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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



[July 



The account ^commences by giving a reason f >r the name, which it 

 may be sufficient for us to know, is dated backwards only twenty-eight 

 Maha-yugas since. At a much later period the place was under the 

 charge of fourteen persons ; the names of some of w hom, with their 

 panegyrics, are stated. The management downwards is mentioned ; 

 with the number of years during which each manager held authority. 



Remark. — The document is in verse, with a very large proportion 

 of Sanscrit words. It is very greatly injured, being eaten away at the 

 edges, and to a considerable extent within the pages, so as to destroy 

 the connexion of the sense ; and, on thafaccount, a successful, or con- 

 nected, restoration of the writing is impracticable. The loss is per- 

 haps not of much consequence. From the titular name of jiyar, I re- 

 cognize this line of managers to be the antagonists of the Anurangd 

 line before adverted to, in a preceding statement. See 3rd Report. 



There is pasted into the book, and not properly belonging to it, six 

 pages octavo size, of defective Tamil writing, relating to the Cattata~ 

 jati, and Coi gala-jali, two very rude kinds of savages, who live in the 

 mountains near Collan-hotvi, and Cannapatti ; their modes of life, cus- 

 toms, kind of religion, and similar matters. The want of completeness, 

 in these pages, is to be regretted. Several years -since 1 was apprized 

 of the existence of such a people, in the mountains of the Dindigul dis- 

 trict, scarcely raised above animal existence. From other papers, we 

 find remnants of them, in various low stages of civilization, scattered 

 over the peninsula ; usually in mountain retreats. Having already, more 

 than once, adverted to the conclusions indicated by the extensive exis- 

 tence of such rude tribes, I need not add more, in this place ; except 

 the hope of finding some connected account of these Catlulas andCongalas 

 elsewhere in the collection. 



Section 1 }. History of Chengi kings in the Dramda country. 



This paper which is promised in the table of contents, appears to be 

 wanting. Either the foregoing document may have been erroneously so 

 designated, or else the paper in question may have been mislaid, and 

 those loose leaves pasted into the book, in its room. 



Section 3. Account of the eighteen Chola-rajas, &c. 



The writer professes to extract from the Bhavhhotriya-puranam, and 

 makes Parvati to enquire of Siva at Cailasa, oOpQerniug the place 

 where beatification may be obtained. Siva then is made to narrate what 

 follows. — In the wilderness there was a man, and his wife, of the 

 Cunumbi tribe, to whom Siva appeared ; and they asked him permission 



