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Report on the MacFcenzie Manuscripts, [April 



S€ctio7i- 14. Account of Manikya-chendu, a trader, a Jaina inhabi- 

 tant of Calicut. 



The statement is written by Manilcya, who derives his ancestry 

 from Guje rat ; where his forefathers were traders, and of the Jaina 

 religion. The account is very brief. 



Section 15. Account of -¥Mi?a^a, chief inhabitant of Mangatamhalam 

 a village in the Malayala-coxxnixy, 



A reply to questions, the same as proposed to other classes of people. 

 They have no inscriptions —Parasw /?ama formed the country into 

 sixty-four districts ; but did not establish any images or fanes. These 

 were afterwards formed by Cheruman Perumal, and the Brahmans,^ 

 In Tuluva there were thirty-two village-districts, and thirty-two in 

 Malayalam-proper. The people of this village came originally from 

 Hama-natfia Karai. Parasu Rama, when he brought them hither, 

 promised to them protection whenever they should think of him, and 

 then went away. They wished to try his veracity, and called him 

 without necessity, on which he testified great anger ; and, saying he 

 would not on any account come among them again, disappeared. 

 Legend of the origin of a fane at Muriyur, founded on the circum- 

 stance of a stone giving out blood, when used as a whet stone. Some 

 particulars are given of the extent, and proceeds, of the land possessed 

 by the writer named Musala, a chief man, and belonging to one of the 

 six subdivisions of the Namburi-B rahmans. 



Section 16. Account of Pannayur village in the Cuta-nad district. 



No inscriptions ; a reference to the location of Brahmans by Parasu 

 Rama a,t Rama-nad {said to he neav Calicut, or distant from it about 

 eight miles) and to local arrangements made. In reference to an 

 enquiry as to some disabilities to which the Brahmans of this village 

 are liable, the reply traces up the occasion to an Agniliotra, or kind of 

 sacrifice, at which a king of Calicut named Samanda, refused to allow 

 these Brahmans to assist ; and he died without offspring, in conse- 

 quence of the anger of Brahmans which he thereby incurred. There 

 are some few other connected details. The dates of a particular 

 sacrifice ; of the establishment of an idol named Varaha-svami ; and 

 of the ascendancy of the Mahomedans are given, but with some added 



