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

 know, Rayaran Chattan, owner of Valluwa province)™ aTta 



N. B. These are the two northern vassals, as I. PI. ii. 11. 



g. Thus do I know, Cotei Ravi, owner of Nedumpureiyut 

 district (Jewish version corrupted by the writers, but the tra- 

 dition that this is the Palacadu Raja seems correct. Ne- 

 dumpureiyur is an old temple on the Palgatcheri road, from 

 which Mr. Whish obtained some inscriptions.) 



Thus do I know, Murkhan Chattan, commanding the East- 

 ern army. (The Jews take Kil-padei for a proper name). It 

 seems these two are the great Eastern vassals on the road 

 which leads through the Coimbatoor gap to the old fields 

 of battle between the Pandi, Chola and Chera princes. I 

 conclude from Document I. that in a later period the Chera 

 country properly speaking had been taken from the Chera- 

 mans.* 



h. Cajidan of Great Taleicheri (nja»VttmVrn) Kil-way (" un- 

 der-mouth" Eastern commander or Viceroy, i. e. dhalawa 

 ee army-mouth" s>x general) the mountainsplitter — The wri- 

 ting of Kelappa. 



°N. B. — It is opea to question whether these persons are two <a 

 three. The Jewish version has only the first and the last nsDtt 

 7»s^3 leaving out the middle altogether. If Kilway be the nam< 

 of a place, we must render " the writing of Kilway Kelappan thi 

 mountainsplitter" and the latter appellation may be taken for a titli 

 given to the writer hecause he deals in metals, [compare the Grand| 

 goldsmith of the I. Document]. But as Buchanan says the Je^l 

 find in the names of the subscribing Rajas the Colattiri and thj. 

 Curumbenadu rulers, we may find it possible to recognize in til 

 Candan of Taleicheri a family member or vassal of Colattiri, w ijt 

 with this sea-town recognized the rule of the Perumal, and in £ B 



* According to Ellis it was divided among the great vassals as early as A. D. 389 anj 

 finally though at what period is uncertain was reduced to a province of the Pacdyai 

 Government Trana. Mad. Lit. Soc. p, 19. W. E. 



