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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



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h1._ On the art of archery. 



58. Merit of reading the six Sastras. 



59. Equity among relatives. 



60. Rules concerning interest; crime of usury. 



61. Relates to the Sanc'hya system, or ritual taught by Capita. 



62. Concerning fatal sickness. 



63. Relates to the meditation of a Yogi, or ascetic. 



64. Concerning the Mimamsa system ; the purva-carma, or ritual of 

 Jaimini. 



65. On the Upa-sasfra ; explained as referring to the meaning of 

 words, and proving the meaning by examples from books. 



66. On the art of dancing, with its attendant music. 



6/. On the motions of the hands, or gestures, in dancing. 



68. 1 These relate to the different classes, and various perfections, 



69. J of the female sex. 



70. Relates to palmistry, or divination by means of marks on the 

 palm of the hands. 



71. On the dignity of the mode of conveyance by riding on an ele- 

 phant ; proper only to kings, or persons of high rank. 



72. Relates to the mode of conveyance by riding on a camel. 



73. Relates to riding on horse-back. 



74. On wearing jewels, as ornaments, and their value. 



75. On accounts, or practical arithmetic. 



76. On the medical treatment, especially by cautery, of cows, and 

 timilar animals. 



77. On day-dreams; or visions seen, if sleeping, daring the day. 

 Thus it may appear that a melange has. been produced, such as could 



not proceed from any other mind than that of a Hindu. As illustrative 

 of mythology and manners, I consider the work to be of considerable 

 value. It is complete, and quite uninjured. See a brief entry in the 

 Des. Catal. vol. I. p. 341 art. lxi, wherein it seems to be not in- 

 aptly termed "a summary of the religious and social system of the Hin- 

 dus." 



2. Cavi-carna-rasaya, No. 101 — Countermark 490. 



The title on the label of this book in Telugu and English, would im 

 ply an epitome of some poetical work. It is properly a version of th( 

 Ramayana, in an epitomized form, by Vencata Ramaiyar in the Padya 

 eavyamu, a more difficult kind of metre than the version by Ranga 



