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emigrated from Kiluvai Kundiyan fort; fought with the Kallars,OY 

 thievish tribe of the south, and acquired a principality, given to them 

 by the Pandiya king. During a huntitig excursion, a tiger suddenly 

 sprang from its covert, and attacked the party, of which the Pandiyan 

 king was one. The Poligar of this line killed the tiger, and was re- 

 warded by the distinguishing emblem of a tiger-skin under his saddle ; 

 a token of distinction and honour. After a succession of nine following 

 chiefs the Pandiyan king demanded a wife from their tribe : the reply 

 to which demand was, that their tribe could not intermarry with the 

 descendants of the lunar race (Cha^idravamsa). The Pandiya?i king 

 came to make war against their tribe; in consequence of which they 

 abandoned their estate, and came to Sandara-paiidiya-puram, where 

 they had much trouble with the Knllars, whom they exterminated j 

 and were confirmed in possession of the said town by the Rayer, from 

 the north. Seven generations resided there. Thence they retired be- 

 fore an invading force, which would seem to have been Mahomedan* 

 They fought with Kallars in the Vira-singhu-nadu, and overcame them. 

 They were sent for by a king, who is termed Vicrama-pandiyan, and 

 again Paracrama-pandiyan (the latter name being titular), who gave it 

 in charge to them to exterminate the Kallars, promising them the coun- 

 try subdued as a reward. These people immediately after are termed 

 Curumbars (shewing, by the way, that these Kallars or Curumbars, a 

 tribe having affinity with the Maravas, were not aboriginally Hindus^ 

 but a part of the extensive people belonging originally to the Peninsula, 

 of whose extermination by Hindu colonists we have so many vestiges 

 jn the papers of this collection). They accomplished the task of 

 slaughter, committed to them, until no Kallars remained : they receiv- 

 ed the iovin oi Nadava-curuchi, with a surrounding dependency in the 

 midst of the Kallar country, as their reward. Here they carried on 

 cultivation. They afterwards received another commission against the 

 Kallars o{ the Curumbar-nad ; whom they subdued; and assumed the 

 district, that had belonged to those people. They next rendered a 

 service to Kulaes-^hara (the Madura king) by rescuing a large num- 

 ber of cattle which had been seized by the ruler at Kayatd^ltur, who 

 was at war with the Madura prince. For this service they received 

 distinction, and additional lands. After three generations the men- 

 tion occurs of the Karlakal, or northern viceroys ; and of the appoint- 

 ment of chiefs to guard the bastions of the fort, which took place un- 

 der the first of those viceroys: the chief of this district was one of 

 those so appointed. Except the building of an agraharam at SundarU' 

 pandiya-puram, nothing occurs, till the ascendancy of the Mahomedans 



