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and, as he bad said, the god came with great splendour, and was married 

 to the said Pacsha-lrivaii ; on which day a child was born to Ac&sa* 

 raja, afterwards named Vasumhana-raja ; to whom he made over his 

 rule, and retired to do penance. As Vasvmhana-raja had no offspring 

 he went to Vencata-raja of the aforementioned Narayan-puri, on whom 

 he devolved the portion of the kingdom formerly conceded ; and thence- 

 forward the kingdom became one, under kings of the Narayan-varam, 

 dynasty. 



The son of Vencata-raja was Sindu-raja. In his time a Kiratan, or 

 barbarian, made great lavages as a freebooter ; and, among other spoils, 

 having forcibly taken away the cow of a Brahman, the owner went to 

 Sindu-raja and complained. The raja assembled some forces, with 

 which he pursued and overtook the plunderer, recovered the cow, and 

 gave it back to the owner; afterwards continuing a prosperous rule. His 

 son was named Acanasana raja, his son was Paracruii-raja, and his son 

 Adrica-raja His son Muhilha-raja. His son Vicata-raja, and his son 

 Ribunde-raja. During his reign enemies invaded the kingdom (their 

 name not specified), and overthrew the Vencata-raja dynasty. 



There follows what for distinction sake may be termed the Rama- raj a 

 dynasty ; containing a long list of names only, without any incident. 



Remark. — So far as my abstract goes which I have made somewhat 

 minute, and particular, there is a vraisemblance which, in the leading 

 points, I consider to be assimilated to truth. We have in it in the early 

 history of Tripety, from the time of its founder Adondai ; but apparently 

 only as a feudal chieftainship, merging in a larger one : the precise locali- 

 ty of which I feel at present unable to fix; but I think that Naragana 

 puri, if a real name, must have been the metropolis of a chieftain only, 

 somewhere in the immediate neighbourhood. As to what follows, the 

 names are so numerous, and seem so much to run in cycles, with a 

 repetition of nearly the same names, that it must I conceive either be 

 an encomiastic genealogy of a local chief, or else pure invention ; to 

 which observation must be added, that, allowing for the preceding 

 lapse of time from Adondai, there would not be space for the following 

 genealogy, if reckoned downwards at the rule of even two or three 

 years, for each ruler. 



On the whole this document, from which I had expected something 

 valuable, must be estimated as of very moderate authority, and import- 

 ance ; especially in the latter portion. 



Legend of the Svarna muc'hi river. 



This document is attached to the foregoing without any other note 

 «>f distinction than a single blank space intervening. 



