MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. 31,— December, 1844. 



I. — Analysis of the Copper Grant in possession of the Jews 

 of Cochin. By the late F. W. Ellis of the Madras Civil 

 Service. 



[Since the publication of No. 30 we have met with the following 

 translation of the Jewish Sasanam by the late Mr. Ellis among some old 

 papers in the College. The general interest of the subject and the high 

 character of Mr. Ellis as a critical oriental scholar, will it is hoped be ac- 

 cepted as a sufficient apology for recurring to a subject which has already 

 been so ably illustrated by Mr. Gimdert, from whom also we have received 

 a further highly valuable communication fully bearing out his happy sug- 

 gestion of the true meaning of Anjuwannam. Mr. Gundert has likewise 

 most kindly at our suggestion, furnished a translation of the Hebrew- ver- 

 sion of the Sasanam retained by the Jews, who have long lost all power of 

 deciphering the original. This, with the facsimile of the deed itself made 

 from an impression of the copper plates struck off at the Cottayam Press, 

 with which we have been kindly furnished, renders this subject com- 

 plete.] $ 



' Swasti Sri ! J An invocation or salutation (namascaram) This 

 phrase is found to head all inscriptions and ancient deeds on 

 copper or stone^ in Malabar, In the inscription it is written 



