Water management

This palm-leaf manuscript contains an agreement beween koovilaa kavuNTanh and koopaalu piLLai of veLLiyangkunhRam village regarding irrigation and an agreement between tarmakooyi kavuNTanh of maattuur village and tirumalai nampi, village headmen (ampalakaarar) of veLLiyangkunhRam village regarding the maintenance of the water tank.

Physical characteristics/Extent and format of original material: Palmyra leaf (borassus flabellifer); varying sizes: height 4cm, width 42cm to height 2 cm, width 35cm; one palm-leaf is broken and have sideline perforation. 2 handwritten palm-leaf documents (2 palm-leaves).

Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): ceya/kaarttikai/21, vekutaanhiya/puraTTaaci/16.