1838.] 



Hepori on the Mackenzie Mahitscripis. 



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country, and committing great excesses, hhcI as the Pandiya'desam was 

 coraparalively wild and uninhabited, they determined on emigrating 

 thither, and accordingly came to a place termed Kuttulupai^ sixty miles 

 distant from the Caveri, and as niciny from Madura. There were three 

 brothers, one of whom waited on the Pandiyan. A tutelary goddess 

 in the shape of a stone (carried in their basket) appeared in vision, and 

 gave instructions. A similar vision having appeared to the Pandiyan 

 king, he at once granted their request of being located near to the 

 Varaha\\S^, Soon after the appeal of Chandra Sec'hara Pandiy a to 

 the Rayer occurred. This tribe became connected with Nagama- 

 nayak ; and he afterwards consigned to them a district of which they 

 were to clear the Vedars and Kallars, by exterminating them. In par- 

 ticular a small chief, who had built a fort, was taken, and had his head 

 cut off, by Appaiya-nayak, who received the country ruled by that chief 

 as a reward. His successor was concerned in the matters con- 

 nected with Fisvanatha-nayak ; and was appointed one of the 

 guardians of the bastions of the new fort ; having charge of the 

 ^2d bastion. The opposition of five illegitimate sons of the late 

 Pandiya king, could not be overcome by Ariya-nayaka, the general of 

 Visvanatha, so that the king went in person. The head of one of the 

 opposing chiefs was cut off, by the chief of this palliyam. In order to 

 put an end to bloodshed, the Madura king engaged in single combat 

 with the champion of the remaining four, and came off victorious. 

 After some successions of chiefs, a town was built as the chief town of 

 the 'palliyam^ or district. Some local details : under orders from Vis- 

 vanatha, the chief exterminated certain Fediirs, and took possession of 

 their district ; clearing the country and building a fane to Ayariar \ 

 placing an image therein and appointing pusaris, or 5ifafrfta,ttendants. 

 In the time of the same chief, a Mysore invasion took place; for de- 

 tails of which, and for a translation of the remaining portion of the 

 manuscript, see Or. Hist. MSS. vol. 2, p. 169, et seq. 



Section 2. Account of Bodi-nayak palliyacareVf or chieftain of the 

 district of Siva-rama-kalam. 



Their ancestors were rulers in the district of Gooty. In consequence 

 of the Mahomedan conquest, the people every where emigrated to the 

 south, and the heads of this tribe among the rest. They came to the 

 north side of the Faigai river, where ten families subject to the 



