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be taken away by the members of the family. He may 

 assign to his children in gift, land, house, gold, silver, 

 cow, calf, bullock, seeds &c, of his own acquisition, but 

 not any ancestral property — the children would (thus) 

 possess a right to the father's property. 



Having made rules for each caste, he declared as follows. 

 Should, on failure of heirs (in a family) a girl of the same 

 Bali (class) be fostered, it will amount to an adoption of a 

 girl, and there shall be no adoption of a malef a ), Moreover, 

 on the plea that there is no heir in the family in which 

 succession by heir has to prevail (as aforesaid,) no (rights) 

 should be sold, nor should anything be conferred on the wife 

 and children. If the line of the family is extinct without 

 adoption, the (heads of the country) consisting of four, eight 

 or sixteen persons shall cause a girl and boy of another 

 family of the same Bali to stand as representatives of such 

 extinct family, and these (representatives) alone will then 

 succeed as heirs, but not the wife and children. 



The merchants of the suburbs and town as well as 

 every one, such as a servant, retainer &c, saying that 

 they were the followers of (the rules of) Aliyasantana, 

 and that there existed rules contrary to the Qastras observ- 

 ed by the Mahajana people of the said thirty-two villages, 

 intended to usurp the ( Siddharasam) liquid and the green 

 precious stones which were received (formerly) in three ships. 

 The course taken in order to prevent such usurpation was as 

 follows. When Puj a" was performed and offerings consecrated 

 to the said Kundodara on account of the ships, the Brah- 

 manamams (Brahmans) offered opposition. Then the chiefs 

 of both the parties came together, and with a view 

 to avoid disagreement among the Mahajana people, 

 allotted the territories of Nandaraja to Ptirvapaksha- 

 natha (the chief of the eastern division) and the 

 sovereignty of one Nidamba to Pacchima Shodacapaksha- 

 n&tha (the chief of the western division consisting of 

 sixteen (villages) ; and having called the former Balagai 

 (a©^, right hand) Ballalas and the latter Edagai 

 (left hand, J jf -^^) crowned the chiefs of both the divi- 

 sions with the title of Ubhayaballalas (two Ballalas). 

 Bhutalapandya ruled that these two Ballalas were com- 

 petent for the eighteen classes ; that if the death of 

 (any one of) them takes place, the rules of Aliyasantana 

 alone should be observed (on that occasion), though 



(a) So held by the High Court of Madras in S. A, No. 162 of 1863, 

 Oct. 24, 1863, present Phillips and Frere JJ.—M, 



