Ancient documents engraved on copper in possession [No. 30. 



(" dwelling of silk cotton trees") — the Land bounded so that 

 the E. border be Vayalcadu (open waste plain,) — and the 

 backwater included; the S. E. border be the wall near the j 

 little door gate l(Chiru wutil calmatil) ; theW. border the sea ; 

 the N. border the Torana garden ; the N. E. border the<gar-J 

 den of the unapproachable (andilan) of Punnattala ; the land 

 enclosed within these four borders I have empowered to take I 

 and by executing this copper deed have given, for the days 

 that earth, moon and sun exist. 



And it has farther been settled with the concurrence of 

 H. E. the Ayyan Adigal, H. E. Rama, and the Palace Major 

 ■ — that the Church people (Palliyar — probably heads of the 

 Tarisa citizens) alone have power to punish the (heathen) | 

 families of this land for any offence whatsoever and receive the 

 fines expences, headprice and breastprice (probably the right 

 of selling males and females for serious caste offences ;) — mine j 

 own relations whoever they be, whatever the charges be, 

 shall never have the right there to speak as heads of the land 

 dealing with subjects — Let the 6C0 (see d) the Anjuwan- 

 nam and Manigramam (Jewish and Christian principalities) 

 be the protectors. Let them, even Anjuwannam and 

 Manigramam act both with the Church and the Land accord- 

 ing to the manner detailed in this copper deed for the times 

 that earth, moon and sun exist. Ordered with the sanc- 

 tion of the Palace major Vyaraka Devar, and with the sanction 

 of H. E. the Ayyan Adigal, and H. E. Rama and free tenure 

 granted to these (Palliyar) as follows : 



(Again a difficult sentence — I take ulatiu i. e. loka for 

 the official name of the citizens, Christian freemen, formed in- 

 to a corporation, and distinguished both from the Palliyar, who 

 are their headmen and from the Cudi or Heathen families, 

 who live on their grounds as farmers or slaves) —There being 



61 citizens, the number not to be increased nor to be dimi- 



