19. Chengkomba, or cattle that had destroyed life, human or bestial.
20. Kunnuda poolee—beeves born with a peculiar white spot near the corner of the eye.
21. Ana-pidee—elephants caught in the jungles.
22. Poowala—buffalos with a white spot at the tip of the tail.
23. Koomba—the tusks of dead elephants.
24. Korawa—the leg of a hog, deer, or any other eatable animal killed in the jungles.
| 25. | Wala | } | The tail and skin of a tiger. |
| 26. | Tola | } |
27. Kennutil punne—a pig that had fallen into a well.[85]
This system of aid and perquisites, rather than of taxes and assessments, continued, as we have said before, till A.D. 1736. At that time the invasion of the Ikkairee, or Bednore Rajah, to whom the Canara province was then in subjection, obliged some of the rulers of Northern Malabar to levy twenty per cent. on Patum, or rent. The part of the Palghaut and Temelpooram districts, which belonged to the Calicut house, was subjected to a land tax, under the name of Kavil, or compensation for protection. With these exceptions,[86] Malabar was free from any land rent or regular assessment proportioned to the gross produce before Hyder’s invasion in A.D. 1777.