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digul province, who summoned the chiefs of the Dindigul province to 

 meet him. When they were assembled Rama-Bhadra " from relation- 

 ship to the ruling prince at the capital" had the privilege of being 

 seated on a level with the envoy. While so seated, Kendama-nat/ak 

 came, and did obeisance ; when Rama-Bhadra kindly addressing him, 

 told him to rise. Kendama-nayak, whose obeisance was intended for 

 the envoy, kept this expression in mind ; and, considering that it im- 

 plied an assumed superiority, took the first practicable occasion to in- 

 vade the district of Rama-Bhadra ; in doing which he cut off the head 

 o( Rama-Bhadra, and took, from his district, the village of Kudivilartu 

 The chief so slain ruled twenty-one years; and, as he had never mar- 

 ried Condama-nayak his cousin succeeded, and ruled thirty-five years. 

 His son Nagama-nayak ruled fifty years. His son was Vencaia-svami- 

 nayak, who had ruled twenty years when the account was written. 



Section 4, Genealogy of Kendama-?iayak a. feudal chieftain of Ma- 

 dura. 



The origin of this chief is traced up as high as Sal. Sac. 1342, 

 (A. D. 1420), when the progenitor of the race accompanied some others 

 to the Madura country. One of the number was a Tamhiran, or asce- 

 tic, who seems to have been the same with the chief of Tavasi-Medn, 

 heretofore noticed. The whole appear to have been merely humble co- 

 lonists, until the time of Nagama nayak, when directions to clear a 

 certain district were transmitted to the head of this race, who received 

 at the same time a feudal estate. The chief of the district had charge 

 of one of the bastions of the Madura fort. In the war against the five 

 illegitimate sons of the Pandiyan, who had built five forts at Kayatla- 

 tur, and other places, the chief of this district had a share. 



[In this place the document abruptly ends ; being, of course, very 

 incomplete]. 



Section 5. Notice of a copper plate inscription relative to buried 

 treasure, at Cunalur, near Madura?, taca. 



On a hill, near the above town, to the east of Madurantaca there is 

 an Aluvar fane, in which a Sudra-pusdri was one day surprised by a 

 box falling from the roof of the old building; on opening which, was 

 found, among other things, a copper-plate inscription directing to a 



