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destroyed all who attempted to exorcise it, could be cast out. While 

 the man was speaking this spirit quitted the woman, who came forth 

 dressed, a plate of flowers in her hand ; with which she set out to visit 

 the residence of the Muni, whosQ power had cured her. The Rm/er 

 and his family followed after, and, on coming to the place, they all paid 

 homage to the sage. On the Rayer asking him what he demanded, he 

 required that the begun temple should be properly finished, which the 

 Rarjer accordingly directed to be accomplished. The two Vedars had 

 villages given them, which afterwards bore their respective names ; and, 

 when one of the Mm712^ died, the other continued to reside in, ornear, 

 the shrine. 



2Vote, — This paper, from the fading of the ink, caused great trouble in 

 restoring particular passages, with a few failures in making out some 

 words and letters. The general sense is however preserved, it is in 

 poetical Tamil of the plainer sort, and merely the legend of <iJaina fane. 

 The Rayer^s name is not mentioned, nor any date. Accordingly the only 

 use of the document is to illustrate native manners and the mode of the 

 introduction of the Jaina system at a remote period. The tribe of 

 Vedars (a pure Tamil word having no connexion with the Sanscrit word 

 Veda) were not Hindus ; but, according to indications in these papers, 

 they were the earliest inhabitants of the Peninsula ; giving way before 

 the Curumhars, even as these also were superseded by the pure Hindus, 

 In Hindu writings the term Vedar is synonimous with every thing low,, 

 vile, and contemptible, under a human form. 



Section 10. — An account of a hillock of white-pebbles (fossil re- 

 mains) at Callapiliyur in the district of Chettupat. 



To the east of the above village there is a hillock, entirely of white 

 stones. The hierophant of the fane in that village gave the follow- 

 ing account of them. Two Racshasas, na.mQd Vathen a.nA Vil-Vathen, 

 lived here, and were accustomed to feast foot travellers in the following 

 manner. Vil-Vathen first slew his youngei brother Vathen, and then 

 cooked him in pots, out of which he fed the traveller. The meal being 

 finished Fit- Vathen caXledi on his brother byname, who came forth 

 alive, rending the bowels of the guest, who, dying in consequence, both 

 of the savages feasted on his body. On the occasion of the marriage 

 of Saiva and Parvati, at Cailasa, they dismissed Jgastya, sending him to 

 the mountain Pothaiya in the south j who, on the road, came by the 



