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Sectio7i 10. Account of the race of Bodi nayak of the Dindigul 

 province. 



The account commences with the destruction of Vijayanagara by 

 the Mahomedans, 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 Pandiyakmgs. 

 In the reference made to the former possessor there would appear 

 to be some illustration of the hog-hunting, which figures in the Ma- 

 dura hala-purananiy as attended with important consequences. No- 

 thing very special appears in the subsequent history of the various 

 chiefs, or possessors of the estate. 



A petition to the Honourable Company to repair a certain annicut 

 (or water course) follows ; of no permanent consequence. 



There is copy of an inscription commemorating a grant of land 

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

 scription commemorating a gift of land by Appaiya Nayaker, a poligar 

 to a female slave of a Faishnava 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. 



Section 11. Account of Periya Muttu Samiya-nayaker of the 

 Devaram-palliyam in the Dindigul district. 



The Mahratta did not pay tribute to the Padshah ; when the latter 

 directed 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 honours and distinctions, The Pac^*Aa^, passing one day- 

 near the latter's residence, demanded one of the females of the tribe 

 in marriage ; 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 Mahomedans, as mentioned (Section 3d) in the account 

 of a foregoing chief. 



Section 12. The local legend of the fane of Comha-palliyapattu in 

 the Coimbatore 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 peo- 

 ple who had been blind, obtained afterwards a Brahman^ as oflliciating 



