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Section 11. — Account of Periya Muttho Samiya Nayaker, of the 

 Devaram palliyam, in the Dindigul district. 

 The Mahratta did not pay tribute to the padshah, when the latter di- 

 rected the ancestor of this poligar to go against the Mahratta ; and, as 

 the doing so was attended with success, the padshah rewarded the 

 chief with honors and distinctions. The padshah pas-sing one day near 

 the latter's residence, demanded one of the females of the tribe in mar- 

 riage ; threatening to take away the same person by force if refused. 

 An evasive answer was given; and the account abruptly breaks off. 

 The inference is that the tribe fled to the south, to get away from the 

 Muhammadans, as mentioned (Section 3rd) in the account of a forego- 

 ing chief. 



Section 12. — The local legend of the jane of Comba-palliya-patta) in 

 the Coimhatore province. 

 A legendary account of a fane to which at first a Sudra was hiero- 

 phant ; but which acquiring celebrity, from some alleged cures of people 

 who had been blind, obtained afterwards a Brahman as officiating cere- 

 monialist. Except as illustrating native manners, and opinions, the 

 section has no special value. 



Section 13. — The local legend of the fane ©^Ranga Nayaker, in the 

 Devaram feudal estate* 

 A peasant struck against a stone, while going on his work, and fell ; 

 on which being angry he was going to break the same, by which means 

 it was discovered to be an emblem of Vishnu ; and, a fane being built 

 over the stone, it became in some degree celebrated ; but falling into 

 decay, at the prayer of some devotee for rain, a form appeared saying, 

 that if the shrine were honored as it used to be then there would be rain. 

 Nothing further is added. 



An account of Choli mali-alo gar fane, in the Devaram feudal estate. 

 A boy, of the ordinary people, named Carupen, was frightened and 

 chased by a spectre ; which circumstance he narrated to the village peo- 

 ple ; who, recognizing the spectre to be an appearance of Alagar 

 (Vishnu), came and saw the place, and afterwards built a fane in com- 

 memoration of that appearance. 



Section 14. — Account of the fane of Kaldtesvarer in Uttama-palliyam 

 of the Dindigul district 



'A person had been accustomed to go as far as Calastri on pilgrimage ; 

 but, one day a form appeared, and told him it was not needful to take 

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