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The four parts are in poetical language. They form a kind of 

 brief Georgics ; not well capable of being abstracted. This paper 

 on agriculture in full, might be interesting to the curious ; and would 

 be requisite in any general description of the Malayala-QowviiYy, 



Section. 4. Regulations (or laws of tht Kerala-desa). 



Discrimination between the person of integrity, and one devoid of 

 truth. Qualifications for good government, and for exercising the 

 offices of a statesman. The duty of a king to protect the four classes 

 of the people— i?ra/maM«, kingly race, merchants, cultivators. 



Local customs, and subdivisions of people. One who abuses a 

 Brahman is to have his tongue cut out. The distance to be observed 

 by a /Swrfm in approaching higher classes ; different classes of Sudras 

 having different measures of distance assigned to them. Rules of 

 debtors, loans, and interest — modes of recovery in case of dishonesty. 

 Recommendation not to go to law, but to refer the case to Brahmans, 

 or other special arbitrators. Laws of marriage. A Brahman may mar- 

 ry four wives, and of each of the inferior classes in order, without 

 crime. Law of bonds for debt, which hold good for only twelve years ; 

 and after that period must be renewed in order to be valid. Laws for 

 regulating the forming of lands, and settling disputes which may 

 arise thereupon ; which subject closes the document. 



Remark. — This paper seems to be of some importance towards 

 any just explanation of the great peculiarities that obtain in the 

 il/a^aya/a-country. 



Section 5. Original account of Kerala-desa. 



This is the Kerala Ulpatti in the Malaijala language ; before ab^ 

 stracted, see first report j Art. C. and Restored MSS. Vol. I, C. 



Section 6. Biographical notice of Sancaracharya. 



This notice is written in the Malayala character, and in the Sanscrit 

 language. 



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

 ceedings of Sancaracharya, the great disputant, the opponent of Ra^ 

 mayiuja and founder of the Adwita Brahmans ; whose leading tenet is 



