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their religious teacher, and guide. He made many additional dis- 

 ciples. Tippu Sultan gave some endowments, which have been con- 

 tinued by the Honourable Company. There is nothing further of the 

 slightest consequence. 



Section!. Account received from Syed KV\ Coyn, the Cadri (or 

 CazO of the mosque at Tiruvarangadiy in the talooivs oi Ve.tiata-nadf 

 and Yera-nad. 



They have no ancient books, or records. The writer professes to 

 give only what he had heard. Cheruman Perumal adopted the Maho- 

 medan system, and went to Mecca ; whence he brought with him ten 

 families to return to A/a /a^a/am ; but he fell sick of a fever at the 

 Shahar (a town) where the ship had stopped in the passage ; and, as 

 the fever threatened to be fatal, he charged those people to go to 

 Malayalam and disseminate their religion there. They objected 

 that they were strangers to the country ; in consequence of which he 

 gave them letters of introduction. After his death they came to 

 Codugnalur (Cranganore ?) and delivered the letters to the chief at 

 that place. The Farapa-rai/a, by his order gave them Tiruvarangadi 

 (a bazar street) for their residence. They are bound to present a 

 Nuzzar, to a certain fixed amount, on the accession of every new chief, 

 as an acknowledgment of fealty and homage, discontinued (at the 

 time of writing) since seventy years. 



Section 8. Answers to enquiries received from the Namhadi chiefs 

 at Cuvitta'-nad. 



They received their lands from Parasu Rama. No inscriptions. 

 They are subordinate to the Calicut, and C ochin, rajas. Under them 

 are 1,G00 Nayars. They give a fabulous account of the origin of their 

 tribe. Of their tribe there are three chiefs, Fengna-natta-raja, Yeda- 

 lara-nadu-vari, and the writer the Nambadi of the CtUti-nada-Padin- 

 yare district. The Fengna-natta-raja was adopted as ruler from their 

 tribe, when the lineal ruler of that place had no offspring : it occurred 

 about seven hundred years previously to these answers having been 

 written. In consequence of some family discord the Padinyare dis- 

 trict was divided, and so continues. In a defect of posterity the 

 offspring of a female of the race, by a Namburi Brahman, succeeded ; 



