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same stock as these, all these being entitled to the fetter -right 

 (^^r the footrope for mounting cocoanut trees ?) and ladder 

 right (for reaping pepper ?) ; to the tax for the elephant feeder^ 

 and to the wash-gold (" m" perhaps — ari,) which the Chandan. 

 Q' great person? sun ?") is wont to get (mattu " hook in" T. 

 " get by ruse" M.) as well as to the harvest gold (" polipon" 

 gold of interest ? shining gold ?) to the nightly meal of rice 

 and to the pot-measure,, I, possessed of this sharestafl and of 

 the Cavvan (or cappam ? (i tribute") and of those 5 Kandis 

 (pieces of ground or shares ?), — haye given them by a free 

 and unrestricted transfer. 



Maruwan Sapir I 'so (Maruwan the syrian "po Lord ?) 

 who has received the water (hereditary possession) of this 

 town, having arranged that these four families of 'Ilawar (with 

 their servants and washerman), two families of — , one family of 

 carpenters, and four families of Vellaler (Tamil agriculturists) 

 the latter being Car alar (T. ploughmen, M. temple servants 

 used pi. v. for Trustees, hence pi. iv. the noun cardnmei 

 " Trusteeship") of the Alave (or Aladeiya) land, that all 

 these may do their duty to the God, the planter by planting 

 (rice etc), the setter by setting (trees, or by building, offer- 

 ing ?) so that the required ceremonies such as the oil for the 

 Church suffer no diminution, has enacted and ' given to the 

 Tarisa Church the land now to be described. 



Decreed with the sanction of the Palacemajor* Vyaraka 

 Devar (probably commissioner of the Perumal, since he is 

 repeatedly mentioned before the Travancore vassal) and 

 power given with (the ceremony of) waterdrops for seizing 

 and possessing, under the concurrence of H. E. the Ayyan 

 adigal, H. E. the second Kaja — Kama (brother of the former 

 and next heir,) his officers and ministers, and of the 600 

 (a local authority vide /,) also of the (neighbouring) lords of 

 Punnattala (" place of Calophyllum trees") and Pulacudi 



* la the original Q & (r <i£t & £ rr^ s sr Eds. 



