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அவன் as அமுதினுக்கு and அவன்க்கு but not as அமுதின்னு and அவன்னு as now. And in the Kottayam plates of Vira Raghava Chakravarti (A. D. 1320) the language is also Tamil freely intermixed with Malabar idioms like வாதில் for வாயில், படிஞ்ஞாறு for படிஞாயிறு, ஒள்ள and ஒண்டாயில் for உள்ள and உண்டாகில், இருந்தருள for இருந் தருள, எழுந்தள்ளி for எழுந்தருளி &c. ; and verbs were still inflected. We find also caste names like வெள்ளாளர், ஈழவர், தச்சர் and தீயர். All these will be made more clear in the following section which deals with the linguistic evidence of the growth of the Malayalain language.

To illustrate the development of the Malayalam language and the peculiarities of each period of its growth, typical selections are given below from Panik. kar's Ramayanam, Krishna-gatha, Adhyatma Ramayanam and Nala Charitam, each of which may be taken as representing a particular period in the growth of the Malayalam language together with short explanatory and philological comments:

(1) கொண்டலிந்நேரிருண்டு சுருண்டு நீண்டொளிவார்ந்து திங்ஙம், குந்தளபாரமோடு முகில்குலத்திட மிந்நல்போலே, புண் டரீ கேக்ஷணந்நரி கெப்பொலிந்தவள் nதசொந்நாள். அட்டிப்பேறு is not correctly understood in Malabar. The Malabar Gazetteer explains அட்டிப்பேறு (attiperu) as 'a parcel of rights'. Prof. Wilson thinks that atti is the less accurate reading of otti (ஒத்தி ) a mortgage. I think both are incorrect. Atti is a pure Tamil word meaning 'poured' and it corresponds to the Skt. Udagapurvam. Attı koduttal is to give by pouring water and atti peru is the acceptance of a gift made as above. During the 17th century its exact meaning was, however, forgotten and the redundant expressions like நீரோடுகூடி அட்டிப்பேறும் நீரும் கொடுத் $1607 came into use.