Bhutdla Pandya. 



these rules but to adherence thereto. It is because the Musalmans 

 and Christians of this very Tulu country act against Bhutalapaudya's 

 rules, that they live happily! Bat those that do not trangress the rules 

 of Bhutalaparjdya, will in course of days, turn poor and come to decline. 



Since these rules run counter to the dictates of nature and also cause 

 injustice, poverty and various difficulties, all that follow the Aliyasantana 

 system should consider whether they have any means of giving up these 

 rules. 



An easy course to be pursued is as follows. 



There is a Legislative Council at Calcutta, the capital of Hindustan, by 

 means of which even the followers of the Aliyasantana system may get 

 their object accomplished. The wise Hindu gentlemen of Bengal having 

 taken a view of the difficulties arising from the prohibition of the re- 

 marriage of widows addressed the Legislative Council requesting that, if 

 the re-marriage of widows should take place, the children born of them 

 may be allowed to have a claim to inherit. The Legislative Council 

 passed an Act accordingly, which received the assent of the Governor 

 General. If all the gentlemen of the Tulu country following the Aliya- 

 santana rules, would likewise consent to Makkalasantana (inheritance 

 in the line of sons) and so present their address to the Legislative Council, 

 there is no doubt that the Aliyasantana system would be done away with 

 and the Makkalasantana system introduced in its stead. Even though all 

 (the said families) should not join together; yet, if the sister's sons and 

 sons of one family at least, would concur and make an address to the effect 

 that the Makkalasantana system should be made to prevail among 

 them thenceforward, there would he no hindrance to such Makkala- 

 santana system taking effect among: them alone. However in so doing it 

 will not be proper to recognize merely the son's right to the exclusion 

 of the daughters, as do the Brahmans who are the followers of 

 Makkalasantana system. If a petition be presented to the effect that 

 incase of the introduction of the Makkalasantana system the male and 

 female children may reciprocally have an equal title like the nephews 

 (sister's sons) and nieces in a family governed by Aliyasantana rules, there 

 will be no obstacle to the petition heiog complied" with accordingly. 



In speaking of the rules of this Bhutaiapandya, we have voluntarily 

 omitted the religious matters : t hough the several religions have a con- 

 nection with the circumstances and rights of the peoples (that respectively 

 profess the same), yet we have left those matters alone, and mentioned 

 here only what is advantageous to the community for the present. If all 

 who read this, especially the followers of the Aliyasantana system, will 

 consider what is said here through affection (for them) and make their 

 attempts, so as to improve themselves for the future, we, and at last they 

 also, will derive happiness. Let God shew favour to all ! 



Note by the Translator :— -The original hereof, besides containing words from the Old- 

 Canarese, the Tulu and the Sanskrit languages, is also unintelligible here and there 

 because of omissions of verbs and mistakes in the use of tenses and cases. As I was 

 directed to translate closely, I beg to be excused lor the unidiomatic expressions which 

 must always be found in a literal versiou. 



M. 0. SINGALA'CHA'RIYA'B. 



June 1864, 



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