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No. 37. Gift to Niluvanesvara Tambiran from Ke'sari Pandiyan, 

 the giver of his own weight in gold, and a heap of vestments like a hill ; 

 a courageous warrior, and ruler of the three worlds ( Tribhuvana Cha- 

 fer averti Nayanar). He gave one hundred gold huns for the use of 

 Vara da Nambi, the head brahman, to the temple females, and other 

 temple attendants. 



No. 38. Dated in Sal. Sac. 11 12; gift to Nilivanamudiya Nayanur 

 of fifty gold pieces, by the whole of the people of this village (name not 

 given) for the celebration of the marriage of the said god in the month 

 of April. 



No. 39, (Very short and perfect) gift of an elephant vehicle by the 

 head man of Mathurdntacam in the country of Rajendra Chola of 

 the north bank (supposed of the Caver i J to whom, when, or for what 

 object, not stated. 



No. 40. A few Sanskrit words in Tamil and Grantha letters, without 

 connected meaning, copied from the inner building of a fane of Ganga- 

 Kunda-puram in the Udiyar Palliyam. 



Manuscript Book, No. 14. Countermark 768, 



Section 1. Account ofPandoo coolies (Pantu curzisj in the Jaghire, 



and Arcot Districts, written from different verbal accounts. 



This paper contains an account of certain subterrnnen, or excavations, 

 as if they were tombs, discovered at various places : of the exact nature 

 or character of these pits there appears to be no certain knowledge ; 

 but the writer has collected, and stated, the traditionary accounts of 

 people near the places where those excavations were found, by which 

 they are ascribed, — 



1. To a desire of obtaining shelter from a predicted shower of fire, 

 about the beginning of the era of Saliva hana. 2. To certain pigmies that 

 lived towards the end of the Dwdpara yuga, who constructed for 

 themselves these dwellings under ground. 3. To the five Pdndavas, 

 as a refuge from the persecution of Duryod'hana. 4. To the votaries 

 of a certain goddess named Nila-mucari', who offered to her monthly 

 sacrifices therein. 5. To the Vedar and Lurumbar, (hunters and 

 savages), of former days, as places of protection, for their wives and 

 children, from wild beasts. 6. To certain men in the time of Rama, 

 who had monkey's tails, whence these pits are by some called Vali-Cudi. 

 7. To rakshasas (or evil beings) who constructed these places of safety 

 for their wives and children. 8. To a custom of early times after the 

 deluge, when men lived so long as to be a burden to themselves, and 

 their relatives, so that the latter put them in certain earthen shells with 

 a supply of provisions and left them to die , 



