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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts, 



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The paper also contains a mention of kings of Magadha, similar to the 

 first section. [The conjecture arises that the Cadamba dynasty origi- 

 nated, in consequence of shaking off the yoke of Magadha, of which 

 country, probably it formed a distant province]. 



General Remark. — The contents of this thin octavo volume may be 

 judged of by means of the foregoing brief abstract. The accounts of 

 the local tribes are not without use. The last paper is important ; per- 

 haps very important. It explains the early portion of the Kerala-Ul- 

 patti; gives a further view of the location of Brahman-coiomsta ; and 

 indicates a time where there were no Brahmans in the country. Under 

 such circumstances, it is not surprising that tribes of aborigines should 

 remain in greater numbers, than in other parts of the peninsula ; from 

 which, as we have had abundant proof, they were, to a prevailing de- 

 gree, exterminated. 



Manuscript book, No. 4— Countermark 888. 



Section 1. Account of Rama-raja, and his contests with the Maho- 

 medans. 



This section contains somewhat full details of Rama-raja's negocia- 

 tions, and battles, with the neighbouring Mabomedan rulers. A pom- 

 pous, and very exaggerated, statement is given of the splendour of his 

 throne, and the number of' his obsequious attendants; including the 

 kings of all the fifiy-six countries of Hindu geography. A list of his 

 army is also given. The attacks of the Mahomedan chiefs, separately, 

 were foiled ; but a grand confederation against him of five shahs, at 

 length overthrew him, and conquered the kingdom. The date of Sal. 

 Sal. 1486 (A. D. 1564), is given ; and it corresponds with that of the 

 battle of Taltcota, which ended the power of the Vijayanagarum, 

 kingdom. 



Note. — This document will continue legible for some years. The 

 paper is undamaged ; but the ink is not throughout equally good. 



■ Section 2. Account of the Banijagaru, or traders, of Banivassi in 

 the Sunda district. 



The lew details which relate to this class of Livgadharis, and mer- 

 chants, chiefly notice the protection, or otherwise received by them 

 from Sada-Siva, downwards to the times of Tippu Sultan, and the En- 

 glish ; and the whole, in any general point of view, is unimportant. A 

 brief mention of weights, measures, and commodities, is appended. 



