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their family may have been the followers of Makka- 

 lasantana system. He further observed that should any 

 of the Ballalas of the above pattam (seats of honour) die, a 

 corpse should be made in his stead in Baikunte (straw) and 

 the people of the eighteen classes joining together, 

 should burn this corpse ; that there must be a Pumada 

 Kaimada Neleupparige (a litter with stories, adorned with 

 flowers, &c.,) and Chatii,r4n§a } {fG®r kinds of troops), Tdrana 

 (string of leaves, flowers or sometimes cloths with orna- 

 mental needle-work hung across the highway), all sorts 

 of musical instruments played upon, and drums beaten ; 

 and with all these they should scatter rice about — failing 

 which they the eighteen classes of people will be in pol- 

 lution, and that because it (the Ballal6) is a spiritual pre- 

 ceptor and the people of the said classes are disciples 

 (they) should observe the pollution as aforesaid. 



Sixteen kattaJ.es or rules. 



1. It being asked that as there is only one girl (heir) 

 in each family governed by the Aliyasantana rule, how would 

 the line of the family continue for the future if the 

 death of the husband of such girl should take place, Bhuta- 

 lapandya declared that (in such case) the parents are not 

 competent to give such girl to another person in marriage ; 

 but the maternal uncle and other members of the family 

 may do so ; that the parents are only to touch the Dhare 

 Gindi (a metal vessel with a tube on its side by pouring water 

 from which a girl is given in marriage) while giving their 

 daughter in marriage, and it should not be the custom with 

 them to get (the girl married) by pouring water as 

 aforesaid. 



2. If in that (in the Aliyasantana family) a girl loses 

 her husband, such girl is called a Budavalati. If the girl 

 happens before she is wedded (a second time) to be pregnant 

 by intercourse with another person of her own caste, Bhut&- 

 lapandya declared that she may be given to such person in 

 Budaclhare marriage on receiving a fine from him. Bhutala- 

 pandya added that if the person is of a higher caste than the 

 girl, she may be allowed to be kept by him, or, on the con- 

 trary, if he be of an inferior caste, the Ballalas may sell such 

 girl on exacting a fine from him. 



3. If a husband goes to another country leaving the mar- 

 ried girl alone, Bhut&lap&ndya declared that she may after 

 the expiration of five years (from such absence) be joined and 



