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

 the same. This account is written in a series of Sanscrit slocas^ or 

 stanzas. There are other documents in this collection, concerning 

 this polemical champion, better fitted for abstracting than inflated 

 poetry. 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 Malayalam 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 

 Cannanore, noted at the close of the foregoing Tamil manuscripts. 

 There is also mention of the various rajas, or chiefs in Malay- 

 alam, at the time when the document was written. 



Section 8. Regulations of the Malay ala-QOxmiij, relating to laws 

 and mannerSo 



This section is headed Vivahara Samudra, and is a Sanscrit version 

 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 differs a little from the other ; but, in so far 

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

 sicca 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 re- 

 ference, 



lection 9. Account of the tribe of Mapalamar at Pannyur village in 

 Malayalam, 



Answer to an enquiry by the Collector in 1812, concerning the 

 origin of the Mahomedans in Malayalam. 



The writer J ain-ud-din-Mahud, in reply, states that in the time of 

 Cheruman Ferumal, a ship came from another country in which were 

 Jews, and Nazarenes, (Christians), together with their families, who 



