Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s9: Plate XXXII. a
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s9
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Plate XXXII. a
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This contains the first leaf of the grant in possession of the Israelites at Cochin. The date may be safely put at about 750 A. D. I have already given a revised translation of the whole elsewhere. (*Indian Antiquary*, iii. pp. 333-4.) It was translated for the first time by Mr. F. W. Ellis.
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1. Svasti çrī—kōyōn amai koṇḍān. kō çrī Pārkaraṇ
2. Iravivaṇmar tiruvaḍi pala nūṟāyira-
3. ttāṇḍum šeñrōl naḍatti yāḷā niṉṟa yān-
4. ḍu iraṇḍām āṇḍaikk' ĕdir muppattāṟām āṇḍu Mu-
5. yirikoṭṭu irunda 'ruḷiya nāḷ pirasāḋišša 'ru-
6. ḷiya pirasādamāvadu: Īssuppu Iṟappāṉukku
7. añjuvaṇṇamum věḍiyālum pāyaṇattālu-
8. m pāɣuḍamum añjuvaṇṇappēṟum payalvi-
9. ḷakkum pāvāḍaiyum¹ anḋōḷayamum kuḍaiyum [kŏḍuttōm].
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¹ pāvāḍai=variegated cloth (chintz) used as a kind of petticoat. The Portuguesė writers show that in the 16th century men of rank in Malabar wore this kind of dress which must have resembled the Malay 'sarong', but the practice is now quite unknown, and only white clothes are used. us: [Figure] lam. The bindu is above the line, [Figure] l; s is sometimes written ` tma; tsu; ndra; pru; bdha; rddha; lpa; lla; shto; snā, n d
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Though this grant is of the 8th century, yet it fulfils the prescriptions of the Sanskrit law-books, except as regards the imprecations. I give the Tamiḻ pronunciation.