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Westwards on this bank and then going southwards on the eastern boundary of the three vēli of land, as measured by the pāłtakköl,---which had been added to Rājagambhira-chaturvēdimangalam out of the lands that were being cultivated as pätfam on the eastern side of the channel which carries water to the tank at Marudür and which lay within the abovesaid tank of Mānaviramadurai,--and getting up the south bank of this tank and (then) reaching the channel which carries water to the tank at Marudur, it lies to the west. Further, proceeding along the east bank of this channel in a south-easterly direction and then in southerly direction and reaching the old excavation in the south extremity of the kudiyiruppu of Vanagangappēraiyan, it lies to the West. Proceeding again eastwards along this excavation, and going on the ridge (first) in an easterly direction and then in & north-easterly direction along the southern ridge of the field in the south extremity of Manavitamadurai in the agavāy of the old tank of Marudūr, and getting up the eastern extremity of the said old tank of Marudur, it lies to the west. Then, proceeding westwards along this bank, and then going southwards along (the channel called) Diväkaravāykkäl which forms the eastern boundary of Marudür and the western boundary of Māņaviramadurai, till where this channel ends, then passing by this western ridge of the land called) Divakaravayakkal, and then proceeding eastwards along the southern ridge of the field and then passing south along the sevvai which has the western ridge of Sundaravayakkal and then going along the line which forms the northern boundary of Sankaramangalam and the southern boundary of Māņaviramadurai, (first) in an easterly direction and then in a north-easterly direction and getting up the northern extremity of Sankaramangalam and reaching the channel which carries water to the tank of Mēr-Pašali alias Srivallabha-chaturvēdimangalam and to the tank of Kit-Pasalai alias Dānavinodanallür, it lies to the west. Then, proceeding in a south-easterly direction on the western bank of this channel, and crossing the other) channel wbich, branching off from this channel, carries water to the tank of Mer-Pasalai alias Srivallabhachaturvēdimangalam, and then going (successively) in south-easterly, easterly and southetly directions on the western bank of the channel which carries water to the tank of Kit-Pašalai alias Danaviņödanallur and reaching the Western embankment of the tank of the said Dänavinödanallür, and then getting down the grasey bank of that tank and proceeding southwards on the eastern bank of the channel which carries water to the tank of Mēr-Pagalai alias Srivallabhachaturvēdimangalam and reaching the northern extremity of the tank of the said Srivallabhachaturvēdimangalam, then proceeding (successively) in south and south-east directions along the Idukkāru (flowing) from the maruvāy of this tank, and reaching the path leading to the nattam of Nelvēli, it lies to the west. Then, getting up at the eastern extremity of the tank of the said Nelvēli and reaching the channel called) Papalaikkal, and proceeding southwards on the western bank of that channel and crossing the path leading west from Nakkaņēri, (il lies to the west).
(LI. 195-267) The southern boundary : Going westwards along the road forming the southern boundary of Nelvēli and the northern entrance to the nattam of Ettiyēri and reaching the western end of the said nattam of Ettiyēri, thence proceeding westwards and reaching the old templesite in the middle of this Ettiyēri and Nelvēli, then going south-west and crossing (the river) ParaJaiyaçu, it lies to the north. Proceeding (successively) in south and south-west directions on the western bank of this river, and then erossing the channel which earries water to the tank of Niranbaiyür and (also) forms the eastern boundary of Sõmättür, and proceeding southwards on the western bank of this channel and reaching the middle boundary between Sõmātter and Sisuvāgai in the vicinity of Kallikkudi, it lies to the north. Further, passing west and south-west along the ridge which commences at the middle of this boundary, and getting into the tank at Siruvägai at the north end of it, then passing on the southern boundary, of Aravankuļi and crossing the channel which carries water to the tank of Kallikkudi, then going westwards and then in a south-westerly
