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entertained: and these in return bestow donations on the pair, from 

 one fanam to one pagoda. The marriage is then finished. Sometimes 

 when money for expenses is wanting, this wedding ceremony is post- 

 poned till after the birth of two or three children. If the first husband 

 die, another marriage is customary. Should it so happen that the 

 husband, after the tying on of the tdli in the first instance, dislikes the 

 object of his former choice, then the people of their tribe are assem- 

 bled ; she is conducted back to her mother's house; sheep, oxen, eat- 

 ing-plate, with brass-cup, jewels, ornaments, and whatever else she 

 may have brought with her from her mother's house are returned ; and 

 the tali, which was put on, is broken off and taken away. If the wife 

 dislike the husband, then the money he paid, the expenses which he 

 incurred in the wedding, the tali which he caused to be bound on her, 

 are restored to him, and the woman taking whatsoever she brought 

 with her, returns to her mother's house, and marries again, at her 

 pleasure. This class of people belonging to the Sivagangai district, 

 are soldiers of Udiyat-dever, those of them who live in the Ramnad 

 district are soldiers of the Sethupatki. Those who carry spear and sword 

 have land given them producing five kalams of rice; those bearing 

 muskets seven kalams ; those bearing the sarboji, nine kalams; those 

 bearing the sanjali (or gun for two men) fourteen kalams ; because of 

 the two men, being double allowance. A sirdar, of one hundred men, 

 has land equal to the produce of fifty kalams; half as much is appor- 

 tioned to a chief of fifty men. These grants are made from various 

 villages, and towns. In this way they derive the produce, paying 

 tribute of five fanams for every k a lam of rice; and in this way the 

 cultivation is managed. Such is the account of the Orurndtta-M aravas. 

 The like custom of military service is common to the other classes of 

 the tribe of Maravas. 



This is the completion of the illustration of the customs of the entire 

 tribe of Maravas. 



