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CHAP. XXIV. TIME KINGDOM OF ELI
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Baticala (in Canara) to Cananor, a squall having sprung his mainmast just before reaching Mt. d'Ely, " the captain-major anchored in the Bay of Marabia, because he saw there several Moorish ships, in order to get a mast from them." It seems clear that this was the bay just behind Mt. d'Ely.
Indeed the name of Marabia or AfdrdwI is still preserved in Mádávi or Mádái, corruptly termed IJIaudoy in some of our maps, a township upon the river which enters the bay about 7 or 8 miles south-east of Mt. d'Ely, and which is called by De Barros the Rio Marabia. Mr. Ballard informs me that he never heard of ruins of importance at Madai, but there is a place on the river just mentioned, and within the Madai township, called Payangádi (" Old Town "), which has the remains of an old fort of the Kolastri (or Kolatiri) Rajas. A palace at Madai (perhaps this fort) is alluded to by Dr. Gundert in the Madrasjournal, and a Buddhist Vihara is spoken of in an old Malayalim poem as having existed at the same place. The same paper speaks of " the famous emporium of Cachilpatnam near Mt. d'Ely," which may have been our city of Hili, as the cities Hili and Marawi were apparently separate though near.
The state of Hí/í-Afdráwi is also mentioned in the Arabic work on the early history
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Mount d'Ely, from the Sea, in last century.
of the Mahomedans in Malabar, called Tuhfat-al-Mz jáhidín, and translated by Rowlandson ; and as the Prince is there called Kolturee, this would seem to identify him either in family or person with the Raja of Cananor, for that old dynasty always bore the name of I"olatiri. f
The Ramusian version of Barbosa is very defective here, but in Stanley's version (Hak. Soc. East African and Malabar Coasts, p. 149) we find the topography in a passage from a Munich MS. clear enough : " After passing this place " (the river of Nirapura or Ni ieshwaram) " along the coast is the mountain Dely (of Ely) on the edge of the sea; it is a round mountain, very lofty, in the midst of low land ; all the
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* Mr. Burnell thinks Áachchilpattanam must be an c;rrur (easy in Malayálim) for Kavvilpattanam, i.e. Kavváyi (Kanwai in our map).
As printed by Rowlandson, the name is corrupt (like many others in the book), being given as Hubaee Murawee. But suspecting what this pointed to, I examined the MS. in the R. A. Society's Library. The knowledge of the Arabic character was quite sufficient to enable me to trace the name
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