Accounts

This palm-leaf manuscript gives the account details of money collected from the kavuNtar caste for the construction of the manjcammaaL temple, the debit and credit account of the zamin of veLLiyangkunhRam, kooyilaa kavuNTanh, viiraNanh, muttu manjcaa kavuNTanh, niilameekanjceeruvai, periyaam piLLai and others in and around veLLiyangkunhRam.

Physical characteristics/Extent and format of original material: Palmyra leaf (borassus flabellifer); varying sizes: height 4cm, width 49cm to height 2 cm, width 15cm; few palm-leaves are broken and few have sideline perforation. 19 handwritten palm-leaf documents (25 palm-leaves).

Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): tunhmati to/rutrootkaari/aavaNi/06; kuroothi/kaarttikai/30; kaalayutti/aanhi/10.