1844.] of the Syrian Christians and Jews of Malabar. 181 



Cshatriya families mentioned in the Kerala Ulpatti (p. 51 



ronCl(5)oQSo "western court") now a feudatory of 

 the Cochi or Perimpadappu Raja. May the Musiris of the 

 ancients not be sought here ? (see the Muyiri-codu of III.) 



7. Manigramam. I no where met with a recollection of this 

 name, until I fell in with the South Indian Repository of 

 April 1838. There, a Syrian tradition relates (p. 1 92) that 

 the Syrian Christians sorely tried by a heathen conjurer (the 

 poet Manica Vachakar ?) at last divided into 2 parties, one of 

 96 families who submitted to heathen purification and adopt- 

 ed the conjurers tenets, whence they were called Manigram- 

 acar, whilst the other party, consisting at last of only 8 fami- 

 lies, stood fast and were called Confessors, Dareaygul, [in the 

 original probably ^^aatus^. Possibly this last name may be 

 found in the next document. So much is sure that Manigra- 

 macar could only be the name of the relations and connexions 

 of Iravi Corttan, or of that Christian section which by its com- 

 merce and riches acquired the peculiar favour of the Perumals. 

 May not the tradition give a witness to a certain amount of 

 christian principle within the Syrian Church of those days, 

 showing that not all Christians were blinded by the splendour 

 of the Royal gift, because the eleva'tion of a Christian mer- 

 chant to the rank of prince in Kerala could hardly take place 

 without a dangerous compromise ? 



8. 10. The signification of several of these princely or 

 jenmi privileges, (called in III. eSGiQujy) is doubtful. The four 

 classes or streets (4 0^<fl) I take for classes of foreign mer- 

 chants, living perhaps in different quarters of the town, such 

 as Concanese, Guzarattis, Chinese ("mentioned in the Kerala 

 Ulpatti) and Arabs or Jews. The mention made of the oilmaker, 

 and five artificers (goldsmith, carpenter, founder, iron smiths 

 coppersmith) together with the Ilawar of the next Document, 



