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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
" address himself to the task of preparing full and faithful 
" portraits of what is before his ejes ; and let the statesman 
*' profit by the labours of the student; for these primitive races 
" are the ancient inheritors of the whole soil, from all the rich 
" and open parts of which they were -wrongfully expelled." 
As points of minor interest I may as well here mention 
that the words Tirumal and Perumal are also derived from 
Mala (Malla). Both terms were originally the titles given 
by the Mallas to their great chiefs and kings. Each Perumal 
was at first elected to rule for a period of twelve years, and 
was chosen from outside the country to govern Malanadu 
or Malayalam. As it often happens elsewhere with royal 
names, these were in later times applied as honorific appel- 
lations to the specially revered god, in this instance to Yisnu. 
The terms sacred Mala or the Great 31ala being once con- 
nected with the deity, lost their original meaning, which 
was in course of time entirely forgotten, l^his circimistance 
explains their peculiar derivations so often found in Tamil 
dictionaries, and the strange attempts of grammarians to 
explain their startling formations. The name of Perumal, 
the great Mala, is still a royal title in Malabar. 
CHAPTER IV. 
The Pariah (Parata, Paharia), Brahui, Bar (Bhar), 
Mar (Mhar), &c. 
Before I turn to the Mallas kuomi as Pallas, I shall, 
after a few remarks, discuss the position of the Pariahs 
The mal in Tirumal is generally derived from mdl, illusion, while the 
same iti'il in Perumal is explained as a change for man in the synonymous 
Feriimdii. The word Tirumal supplies the best evidence of the radical nature 
of the / in Perumal. 
The indigenous title of the South-Indian Cera, Ci-ila and Pancjya king 
WU8 I'lrK/iui/. Jfiillan was the name of a Perumal who built Mallur in 
