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made to the children born of him (Arasu), Bhutflla- 

 p&ndya declared that the marriage ceremony may be 

 performed by (fixing) pillars and (placing) pots, &c. 

 If those Arasus are such as are incompetent to make the 

 Anyata gift, Bhut£lapa*ndya said that it would not be possible 

 to get the marriage celebrated according to the customs ob- 

 served by the Brlhmans. Bhuta'lapa'ndya also declared that 

 during the occasion of auspicious and inauspicious ceremo- 

 nies, Chautas and Bangaras will have to pursue the manners 

 and customs observed by Brahmans ; and. the Chitup<Cdi and 

 Nidambur Ball&a's the Aliyasantana system during such 

 occasions ; and that from the class of Tuluvas down 

 to that of a Navika the nepotism rules should prevail uni- 

 formly. Thus Bhuta*lapandya made the nepotism rules. 



In the twelfth year after the installation of Bhutalapandya, 

 Kesavanna and Basavanna, who were the learned men 

 among the Jainas, were sent for from over the Gh^ts and 

 rewards and presents were given them ; after which they 

 built the following cities. Barkur and other fifteen cities for 

 Kesavanna, and Mangalur and fifteen other cities for 

 Basavanna. Chautas and Chitup^di Ballads are the chiefs 

 of Barkur town, while Bangas and Mdambur Ballalas 

 are the chiefs of Mangalore town. In these thirty- 

 two cities, thirty-two Bastis (Jaina temples) were built, 

 and the suburbs in which Jainas and other persons 

 of superior class lived, have been called Peta. Patnasetti 

 is the person that remains therein. The heads consisting 

 of four, eight or sixteen in number, are Pete Hallaru. 

 Those that collect in a Chatussanga are Petejanaru (or the 

 people of suburbs.) If the people of four castes namely 

 Brahma, Kshatriya, Vaicya and (Judra collect in one place 

 it is called Chatussanga. Those that sell different articles 

 in the said Pete, are called merchants, while those that sell 

 and purchase gold and silver are called Chiniv&radavaru 

 (or dealers in gold, &c.) The people that farm the duty 

 on articles exported and imported into the Peta and also 

 weigh them before themselves are Tol£dharis, and those 

 that store all articles and get them sold by giving the same 

 to different shopkeepers are S6huk6rs, while those that 

 bring nine sorts of precious stones as well as cloths, and 

 also those that bring nine sorts of grains on bullocks and 

 export them on them are Qettigars. If all these persons 

 collect in one place they are called S3vak#rs. 



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