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C 86 ] hanar and placed them in the Four Randoms, and established the Brahmastvam (or Property of the Bramins) suspected that they would go away on account of the trouble of the serpents ; and Sri Parasu Rama being grieved in his mind, called the Eight chief Snakes together with Ananden &c. and prayed to them, saying " Trouble not the Brahmanar whom I with "great difficulty have brought and placed here. — You must "reside one in each different Ksheiram and remain on one side, and Preserve the Offspring and Houses of the Brahmanar who wll also protect you" — Thus he said and received their con-* sent. 63. While it was so in Arya-Vartam, the Ayra-kurra Bram* hanar and a great concourse of People having assembled at Kara Kshelram, Sri Parasu Ramen having heard thereof, he immediately went thither, and paid his respects to the Bra* mins and thus said. 64. " I have established Keralam in order to grant it as a (i Gift to you ; therefore you must come to reside there and "perform the different Duties of Religion by which I hope " or desire to obtain Salvation." 65. At that time the People of the 64 Gramams assembled to- gether, were composed of Fourteen Gotrams (or Tribes) ; and they had the three Fedams, and be brought them all to Malaya* lam and granted the Land in Gift as a Brahma-swam (or Pro- perty to the Bramins). Afterwards he granted Dipam (or Lamp*) to avert the Malediction that he had incurred. 66 At another time when he was considering and suspecting that the sin of the slaughter of Heroes was not yet fully propitiated or released, he acquainted certain Bramhanar thereof, and granted them Gifts of one share as a Brahmaswam (or Property to the Bramins) and because they held up their hands and received that Dosham (or sin) they were called Wurala Purusha, on which account they with the remaining