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 _« * C 76 ] 18. For that reason those of Valiur assert, that they require no other authority to put people to death— some think this power results from their Tapat-Sakli or virtue of their J)evo« tion— but it is not so — and they themselves assert it is because the people of their Tribe then received the Sastra Bhiksha, and took the Val into their hands : hence they are denominated Val-Nambi or Trusting in Swords. 19. All this being done by the Order of Sri Parasu Rdma) he sent for the 64 villages and commanded "You are to give one share out of the Property of the Bramins to the serpents, which lately terrified you (and who are to be consider- ed as Local Deities) and to protect you: accordingly every one granted each one share from their lot and acquired their favor, and afterwards they (the snakes) remained as the local Deities and the Fear of snakes thus ceased in Keralam 20. He afterwards made or established 108 Places of 42 Feet square and in each of these Places he placed a an Image of the Gods who preside over Arms and Arts and then Lamps were ordained, and Puja was performed. 21. He also estalished 108 Images of Durga Devi, on the sea shore, and besides erected a Snake and Goblin 22. He sprinkled the Gold Dust and coined money and formed a Buried Treasure. 23. In this manner having stop t the quaking of the Land, the Arya Bramins continued to reside with constancy in Mala* yalanu This being beard by those that went away at first, they returned again,, and these are called the Pallan-Tuluvar (or the Ancient Tuluvar) ; but having originally come from different quarters and of different Tribes the Pallan Tulavar still use different languages 24. Afterwards Sri Parasu Rama assembled the sixty four villages and established them at Fallupa Nat Karra near Pulakad.%