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of Srinhasi Otherwise called SrinaVha or Vencataraiija ; who was pa- 

 tronized by Anavema reddi of Condaviti. It is in the dvi-pada mea- 

 sure j and relates wholly to the various shrines, tir'thas (or pools), and 

 other localises, deemed sacred, on the Vencatdchala hill, at Tripetty; 

 considered simply as a Vaishnavu fane, without any reference to its for- 

 mer character, as a Sniva fane, antecedent to Hamanvjuchurya. Of course 

 the entire production is comparatively modern ; and consistent with the 

 era of Srinitusi. 



It is entered in Des. Catal. vol. 1, p. 2^4, art. xviii. together with a 

 valuable notice of the shrine at. Tripetty ; not entirely deduced from this 

 legend, hut with additions from other sources. It is to be noted, that 

 though Tondimdn Chacra>er/i, the first founder is said to have lived in 

 the beginning of the Call age; yet, from many sources of deductions, 

 we can prove him to have flourished at a much later period. For the 

 rest, the place owes its distinction to its being near the capital of the 

 Yddava, and the Chandragiri, kingdoms. / 



3. Mantra sdrdrCha dipika, the concentrated light of devotional for- 

 mularies, No. 119 — Countermark, wanting. 



This is a work of an ultra Vaishnava kind, maintaining all things 

 to be in Vishnu, and Vishnu to be all things. It contains also an out- 

 line of various formularies, according to the different votaries of Rama, 

 Criskna, and other impersonations of Vishnu. Men, animals, and in- 

 animate things, are only forms, or manifestations, of portions of Vishnu. 

 The tatva system, relative to the union and harmony of mental and 

 corporeal faculties, and results produced thereby, is found among the 

 other matter. The rise, celebrity, and death, of Rdmanujdcharya, 

 the champion of this ultra Vaishnava system, is given. Mention is 

 made of some shrines of Vishnu, but subordinated to the leading doc- 

 trine of the work, as to his all-pervading, and all-absorbing essence. 

 It would indeed be a work strictly monotheistical, were it not for the 

 admission of local shrines, multiplied avatdras, and the pantheistic 

 idea of matter being the body or clothing, of a pervading soul. 



The manuscript is complete, and in very good preservation. I should 

 suppose it to be valuable, as a work explanatory of the system of Ram- 

 anuja, and his followers ; which is one of great influence^ and credit, in 

 various parts of the peninsula. \ 



Note. — It is entered with a brief, but accurate, indication of the 

 contents in Des. Catal. vol. 1, p. 349, art. 372. ^ *° 



, 4. Hamsa vinsati, ©r twenty (tales) of a swan, No. 77 — Countermark, 

 wanting. 



