Vigilance rights

This palm-leaf manuscript contains a vigilance rights agreement between immuTi kanhaka raamaiya kavuNTar, timmaacai moLikkanh, tirumalai nampi cellappaerumaaL piLLai and the people and village headmen (ampalakkaarar) of meelaiuppilikuNTu village, kallanhai village, veLLiyangkunhRam village and other surrounding villages. It also contains a few small strips of paper documents which are found in between the palmleaves written by the document owner describing briefly the topic of the palmleaves.

Physical characteristics/Extent and format of original material: Palmyra leaf (borassus flabellifer); varying sizes; height 3cm, width 53cm to height 3cm, width 34cm; sideline perforation; few palm-leaves were broken. 23 handwritten palm-leaf documents (25 palm-leaves).

Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): kurootanha/aippaci/25, vikuruti/aaTi/27, ravuttiri/aavaNi/14.