[10] Malayalam and English Dictionary.

[11] Sthanam = a station, rank or dignity. Moore: Malabar Law and Custom.

[12] Original Suit No. 31, 1887, Court of Calicut. Appeal No. 202, 1888, High Court of Madras.

[13] Madras Census Report, 1891.

[14] See Malabar Quart. Review, II, 4, 1903.

[15] Historical Sketches of the South of India: Mysore.

[16] Moore: Malabar Law and Custom, 1905.

[17] Manu.

[18] Mysore Census Report, 1891, 1901.

[19] Yule and Burnell. Hobson-Jobson.