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Analysis of the Copper Grant 



[No. 31 



1 and day-lamps' 



The use of lights by day is the privilege of the chapels — 

 royal or other Pagodas. But uaGdsSari;^ lias another mean- 

 ing in the* details of Malabar, viz. a certain ceremony 

 of the nature of a Mass performed in the Pagodas : thus 

 people on ordinary domcstick occasions or for penance, go 

 themselves or send to cause the performance of a pagel- 

 vilakkah as they term it : probably from burning candles be- 

 ing used at the ceremony. The privilege appears to be that 

 of conducting religious observances by day or by night with- 

 out molestation, where burning censors by day would in- 

 terfere with exclusive privileges. 



uireurreff)i— iLj!Q 



* and long or broad vests (a dress, or flowing full garment, 

 as worn by foreigners )' 



' and palanquins,' 



so i_ tcy LD 



' and umbrellas, 5 



( and drums, [a kind of drum.]' 

 um<n is a kind of musical instrument (Sadur agaradi) 



<BfT <BfT<SfT Qpih 



i and trumpets' 



*/r«r & or «/r«E6wiL means a trumpet. In the original there is 

 an error one way : either in the repetition of the or in 

 making the second syllable long i. e. sir for a; or perhaps it 

 may have been an ancient form of the word. 



* A word left out in the original, probably religious or ceremonial. 



