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Section 8. — Account of the race o/'Culapa Nayak, zemind.tr of 

 Nila-cottai in the Dindigul district. 

 The account commences with the summons of the rayer, given by 

 sending round red garments, to raise troops to resist the Muhamma- 

 dans. The repulse of the first hostile manifestations of the Muham- 

 madans induced the rayer to present the founder of this race with va- 

 rious honors and to send him down to the south. He represented that 

 the country was so wild, and unsettled, that he wished to have it for ten 

 years free of tribute. The assumption of the Pandiya kingdom, the 

 war against Kayattatur, where the five illegitimates ons of the Pandi- 

 yan were conquered, appear as before. The 13th chief, Culapa Na'gama 

 Nayaker, was an author; and composed the moral work entitled 

 Viraviduddthu, (said to have been printed by a native at Madras.) 

 Conquest of Dindigul province by Hydsr Ali mentioned. Nothing 

 else very particular ; except the assumption of the Palliyam. 



Section 9. — Account of Carupa Tambiran, zemindar ofCottai Kddu 

 6-duccam, in the Dindigul province. 

 This palliyam (or feudal estate), had its origin at a somewhat later 

 date than the preceding ones ; and was founded by a Tambiran, or one 

 of the class of ascetics. The account is very destitute of incident. It 

 is illustrative of opinions, and manners. 



Section 10. — Account of the race of Bodi Nayak, of the Dindigul 



province. 



The account commences with the destruction of Vijayanagara, by 

 the Muhammadans, when the ancestors of this race fled towards the 

 south. The first of the race purchased his estate from an ascetic, who 

 had before held it by a grant from one of the earlier Pandiya kings. 

 In the reference made to the former possessor there would appear to be 

 some illustration of the hog-hunting, which figures in the Madura 

 St'hala puronum, as attended with important consequences. Nothing 

 very special appears in the subsequent history of the various chiefs, or 

 possessors of the estate. 



A petition to the Honorable Company to repair a certain annicut (or 

 water-course) follows, of no permanent consequence. 



There is a copy of an inscription commemorating a grant of land from 

 one Condama Nayak to a Brahman. Also copy of another inscrip- 

 tion commemorating a gift of land by Appaiya Nayaker, a poligar, to 

 a female slave of a Vaishnava fane. These three last documents are 

 not reckoned in the list of contents of the book ; and seem to have been 

 pasted in after the book had been bound up. 



