46 On the Syrian and Jewish [No. 9, NEW series. 



from one of the Peroomals before the date of this Document No. 

 III., but at what particular date, has not yet been ascertained. 

 But the Calicut Rajah obtained his little district from the last 

 Peroomal in A. D. 325, and his immediate successor defeated 

 Mana Vepala Mana Veeyan and took possession of the Ernaad 

 country in or about A. D. 365, on which occasion the Calicut Ra- 

 jah assumed this title changing it into " Mana Vullabha Mana 

 Vicramen" (or the husband of honour, and husband of honorable 

 power) and added the same to his own title, though both the titles 

 bear exactly the same meaning. (For further details I must re- 

 fer to the chapter on the Needeeyeeroopoo or Calicut Rajah in 

 my unpublished work.) 



Venoovalinad was afterwards ceded to Travancore and Nee- 

 toompoora Yoornad to Cochin, but it appears that the chieftains 

 of those districts under the Peroomals, as well as the chieftain or 

 Deputy of Vulwanaud had not at the date of this Document 

 received from the Peromal the title of " Raja" as is proved by 

 this Document from their bare names being inserted in it as wit- 

 nesses without any Royal title whatever. 



Though no other authentic documents are forthcoming to ascer- 

 tain what particular spots are the Mooyeericode and Anchoo Vun- 

 nom of this Document No. Ill, yet from the Document No. II it 

 may be gathered that Anchoo Vunnom must be somewhere near 

 to the Manigramom of the Document No. I, and from other cir- 

 cumstances there is every reason to believe that M^ooyeericode was 

 a desham or small parish attached to Codungalore. 



Document No. II. 



This document was granted in the time of the last Peroomal to 

 the Tarisa Pally or Church by the Travancore Raja together with 

 Maroovan Sapir Iso transferring Anchoo Candi (». e. 5 pieces of 

 land) as a freehold with certain privileges to the Church People. 

 This Document appears to elucidate several of the terms in the 

 two others Nos. I. and III, and it further points out some of the 

 old customs of Malabar. Though this Document appears to have 

 some confusion in the arrangement of a few of its sentences and 

 words, this does not affect the real meaning of its contents. 



(1) ' ; Hail ! In this the 5th year of the reign of Peroomal 



