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C 42 ] II. — Maisur Aram Purvabhyudaya. ~ Paper. An account of the sovereigns of Mysur from Appana Timma Raj Wadeyar about the year, 1530, to liava Karasa the second of that name, who died in 1713, with a iistof the Dalavais or Go- vernors of Sirangapatam and the territories con- quered by the Mysore princes. By Nagarada Pu- taya. The substance of this work, and different extracts from it are given in Major Wilkes's history of Mysur, and the following account of it is found in his Preface. '* A Persian manuscript, entitled an Historical A ccount of the ancient Rajas of Mysoor, was found in 1798 in the palace at Seringapatam; it purports to have been " translated in 1798, at the command of the Sultaun, by Assud Anwar, and Gho-' laum Hussein, with the assistance of Pootia Pundit, from two books in the Canara language:" this Persian manuscript was conveyed with other works to Calcutta, and I had not the op- portunity of perusing it until the year 1807, when my friend JJrigadier-General Malcolm obtained a copy from Bengal. A book in the Canara language, of which the contents* were then unknown, was given in 1799 by Colonel W. Kirkpatrick, one of the commissioners for the affairs of Mysoor, to Major, now Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mackenzie, and has since been translated under his direcion with scrupulous care: It is the Canara manuscript from which the Persian translation was made, and is entitled " The Succession of ike Kings of My sooT) from ancient Times, as it is in the Canara Cu$dut turns, now written into a Book by command, by Nuggur Pootia Pundit* It is divided into two parts, as noticed in the Persian transla*