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Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



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Salivahana ruled. The name of Balipati, as a titular name, occurs. As 

 this locality was one of much commerce, many ships going and coming, 

 it was judged expedient to celebrate a human sacrifice, on that account ; 

 and, as stated in the paper, a man was taken from one of the ships, 

 and offered in sacrifice. Buddha-panta raja afterwards ruled. The 

 narrative then alludes to the penance of Vidyaranya svdmi ; inconse- 

 quence of which a shower of gold fell, which he made use of in fixing 

 Hala and Bukha, two brothers in power, at Vidyaranya, and crowned 

 or anointed them. Later down, this place came under the Visiapur 

 government. 



Remark. — This paper is of some little value : the abstract may how- 

 ever suffice. 



Section 12. Account of some Jaina kings of Hobhalli and Hosapat- 

 nam in Canara. 



One Manu maha raja came from Uttara ndt'ha, a town so called, to 

 this place. He was a Jaina. His son was named Jina danta, who 

 forming an improper familiarity, with an outcaste person of the Vedar 

 tribe, the father considered him to have forfeited his rights, and digni- 

 ty ; which the son learning sought safety in flightT There however 

 the narrative abruptly ceases ; owing to some pages of the book at the 

 end being lost. 



General Remark. — The Mahratta papers in this book are quite legi- 

 ble, and in tolerably good preservation ; with the exception only of 

 having been badly bound. The abstracts may suffice, in pointing 

 to general indications of early Jaina rule in the Canara province. 

 There is further an interest attaching to these papers from their relat- 

 ing to the site of ancient commerce with India; being the trade, as I 

 suppose, which is indicated in sect. 11, though we should not, without 

 such a guide, have imagined that it was thought needful to cement it 

 with the blood of human victims. The port first made by Hippalus, 

 in crossing the Arabian gulf, that is Musiris, is conjectured by Dr. 

 Robertson (Disqu. p. 50) to be Merjee, or the Mirjan of sect. 9, but 

 I rather venture to infer that Mushica the name of a district, was 

 meant by Pliny; and in India almost every district had some leading 

 town from which it originally took its name. Further the same writer 

 conjectures the Barace of Pliny to be Barcelore, that is the Baracur of 

 sect. 8 and 11, which is probably accurate. It is needless for me to 

 attempt more than to offer a clue to any who may fliink the subject 

 worthy of further investigation. 



