Land sale

This palm-leaf manuscripts is a land sale deed between the headman (ampalakaarar) and villagers of kokkuLam village, kumunaatanh and azakappanh of vaLLaaLa paTTi village, pattai koTTi viiranh of naracingkam paTTi village and immuTi kanhakaraamaiya kavuNTanh of veLLiyangkunhTam village. It also contains a few images of paper documents in between which is the transcription of the palm-leaf manuscripts written by the document owner.

Physical characteristics/Extent and format of original material: Palmyra leaf (borassus flabellifer); varying sizes; height 3cm, width 53cm to height 3cm, width 32cm; sideline perforation; few palm-leaves were broken. 19 handwritten palm-leaf documents (20 palm-leaves).

Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): caataaraNa/cittirai/05, kiilaka/puraTTaaci/10, srimuka/cittirai/11.