Judgments

This palm-leaf manuscript contains judgements issued on various judicial cases such as separation of properties, surrendering of criminals, murder and theft case, diadem etc. by the village headmen (ampalakkaaraar) which were submitted to immuTi kanhaka raamaiyaa kavuNTar, zamin of veLLiyangkunhRam. 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 4cm, width 62cm to height 3 cm, width 34cm; few palm-leaves are broken and few have sideline perforation. 22 handwritten palm-leaf documents (28 palm-leaves).

Creation dates of original material (Gregorian and/or Tamil calendar): viya/ maaci/05, caarvari/vaikaaci/17, vekutaanhiya/puraTTaaci/11.