1 844.] 



with translation into English, fyc. 



IS 



Shatten — Nedupamr ( and to mistakes for n and a) Cota 

 Erani — Kelapatu Miidcan Shattan — and Talah Sheri (-j 

 mistake for b) Candan — and the writer Kelappen. 



N. B. Perimpadappu the King of Qogin ( CochiJ is not 

 recorded in this (list) because he (the Perumal) settled him 

 as his heir in his stead. 



On the above Mr. Gundert observes: "The Hebrew translator 

 seems neither to have understood much of the original Tamil nor to 

 have cared about rendering it faithfully. The Hebrew itself is a bad 

 specimen of Cochin learning. The MS. from which it was copied 

 may be about a hundred years old, and the translation was probably 

 made with a view of satisfying the inquiries of the Dutch Officers or 

 the Amsterdam Jews. If it is to be published it must be rather to 

 satisfy curiosity than to throw any additional light on the matter." 



Mr. Gundert then proceeds : " I have the pleasure of adding the 

 only confirmation from native writings, I have met with, for the con- 

 jecture which I have formed about Anjuwannam. As a humble 

 admirer only of Mr. Ellis' attainments in the Peninsular languages, 

 I may venture to say, that if he had been lucky enough to see the 

 Syrian documents, he would not have sought for a meaning in what 

 he would have discovered to be a proper name. I also, some years 

 ago, tried several translations of the word, before I thought of taking 

 it for the name of a territory [chiefly on account of the parallelisms. 

 Anchuwannam-udaya,Issuppu, and Vcnad-udaya, &c] That conjec- 

 ture became strengthened by subsequent acquaintance with the 

 native tenures and the wording of deeds. Princely privileges I. saw, 

 could never have been granted but as accessories to a Bhumidanam, 

 till at last, on meeting with the Syrian documents in Nov. last, (1843), 

 I was convinced that their analogies placed the fact of Anjuwannam 

 as a name and the rendering I have adopted of the 72 Viduperu, 

 beyond a doubt. Objection, it is true, may be taken to the circum- 

 stance, that no recollection of the name is to be found among a 

 people like the Jews known to be so much more tenacious of old 

 reminiscences than the Syrians. But the fragment of the Payanur 

 poem, which I obtained from a Native at Taliparambu, who gave it as 

 the oldest and most worthless counter-present he could make to me, 

 proves the name of Anjuwannam, as one of the four immigrated mer- 

 chant-tribes, to have once been known even N. of Mt. Eli. This 



