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Section 6. Account of the Melusacara tribe in Sun da. 



Some minor subdivisions. Their customs, and observances, are more 



Hindu-like, than those of other tribes before noted. The statement is 



however very concise. 



Section 7. Account of the Medari tribe. 



A brief reference to their customs, which resemble those of Hindus, 

 The tribe has four subdivisions. 



Section 8. Account of the Padma-sali, or weavers. 

 Eight subdivisions. Local manners ; offering nothing, requiring 

 special remark. 



Section 9. Account of the Hallapaica tribe, or wild people in Sunda. 



Domestic, and marriage, customs ; with other details, under similar 

 heads, as in preceding cases. There appears to be a mingling of ab- 

 original, and of Hindu, customs. Most of the tribes that have been 

 described afford traces of resemblance to the Condu-vdndlu, Nayars 

 and Maravas. 



Section 10. Account extracted from the St'hala mahatmya of Baua- 

 vassi in Sunda. 



The writer saw the whole legend in the old Canarese language. A 

 special circumstance was by him extracted. To wit : Maijura verma 

 established in his capital a Brahman, who had impressed him with 

 reverence, by refusing to eat in a country wherein there were no 

 Brahmans. Chandran gaten, son of Mayura verma, called a large co- 

 lony of Brahmans ; and. located them in Kerala, in Tuluva , Haiyairi, 

 Concana, Carada. The first speak the Malayalain language ; the se- 

 cond the Tuluva dialect, the third Hala Canada ; the two others differ- 

 ent dialects of Maharashtram. Parasu Rama afterwards came to this 

 country, bringing with him a colony of sixty four families, among whom 

 he established his own va'dica, (ascetical*) system ; but between these, 

 and the others, there was no agreement. The Brahmans introduced by 

 Parasu Rama, are called chitta-pavanar, and were brought from Arya- 

 nad (i e. upper Hindustan). The Parpara country Brahmans are 

 called Madhinyanal. These were instituted to their rights and privi- 

 leges, by the aforementioned Chandrangalan, son of Mayura Verma, 



» Or conformable to the vedas. As Parasu Rama came from the head quarters of Hin- 

 duism, he most probably brought with him. a more regular system, than that of scat- 

 tered emigrants, who -went before. 



