contemplation of the Great Almighty who made the ocean, the sky and things that revolve in eternal 'samsara'. At the same time, with these people of high quality, you may have children playing on the beach who merely take up the sands and throw them at each other. Each does his part.' The Mackenzie inscriptions are to me, like that veritable and expanding sea before the philosopher, the poet, or the God man and finally the children. (perhaps all of us). The monograph is a happy blend of the historical, locational, the stylistic, the philosophical and devotional aspects, welded and meshed into a detailed account. I leave it to different sections of the people to make different uses of it.
State Archives,
Tarnaka,
Dated 12-8-1982
R. PARTHASARATHY, I.A.S.,
State Editor,
District Gazetteers
and
Commissioner of Archives,
Andhra Pradesh.
