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Section 5. — Original account of Kerala desa. 

 This is the Kerala Ulpatti in the Malayala language, before ab- 

 stracted ; see first report Art. C. and restored MSS. vol. 1. C. 



Section 6. — Biographical notice of Sancaracharya. 



This notice is written in the Malayala character, and in the San- 

 skrit language. 



It contains an account of the birth, education, and subsequent pro- 

 ceedings of Sancaracharya, the great disputant; the opponent of 

 Rama nu j a ; and founder of the Adwita brahmans ; whose leading 

 tenet is that the deity and the human soul are not two things, but one 

 and the same. This account is written in a series of Sanskrit slocas, 

 or stanzas. There are other documents in this collection, concerning 

 this polemical champion, better fitted for abstracting than inflated poe- 

 try. This paper has received attention in a few places, where the 

 great paleness of the writing indicated the need of restoration. All the 

 remainder is in a very good state of preservation. 



Section 7. — Memorandum of Maliyalam books. 

 This is a brief list of books illustrating the history or manners of the 

 Malayalam country, with an indication as to the persons in whose 

 hands they may be found, one of the works referred to, is contained in 

 this collection, in a Tamil translation, being the document from Canna- 

 nore, noted at the close of the foregoing Tamil manuscripts. There is 

 also mention of the various rajas, or chiefs, in Malayalam at the time 

 when the document was written. 



Section 8. — Regulations of the Malayala country, relating to laws 



and manners. 

 This section is headed Vivahdra Samudra, and is a Sanskrit ver- 

 sion, in Malayala characters, of the same general subjects as those 

 treated of in section 4. That section is in plain and ordinary language; 

 but this is in verse, and diners a little from the other ; but in so far 

 as rules or laws are concerned, not to any material degree. Each sldca 

 has an interlined Tamil translation ; apparently made with a view of 

 aiding the late Mr. Ellis in his inquiries, since the document bears a 

 note, that a copy of it was transmitted to him. The document has 

 been restored, and may form a useful record for the sake of reference. 



Section 9 — Account of the tribe of Mdpalamar, at Panniyur village, 



in Malayalam, 

 Answer to an inquiry by the collector in 1812, concerning the ori- 

 gin of the Muhammadans in Malayalam, 



