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 -  It is chiefly due to the ingenious and Reverend James
Stanier Clarke, in his Origin and Progress of Maritime Discovery - Page 523
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It Is Chiefly Due To The Ingenious And Reverend James Stanier Clarke, In His Origin And Progress Of Maritime Discovery, Extracted By Him From Various Sources."

"The name of this country, Malabar, is said to be derived from _ulyam_, which signifies, in the original language of that part of India, _skirting the bottom of the hills_, corrupted into Maleyam or Maleam, whence probably came Mulievar, and Mala-bar.

In a MS. account of Malabar, it is said that little more than 2300 years ago, the sea came up to the foot of the _Sukien_ mountains, or the western _gauts_. The emerging of the country from the waters is fabulously related to have been occasioned by the piety or penitence of Puresram Rama, who prayed to _Varauna_, the God of the ocean, to give him a track of land to bestow on the Bramins. Varauna accordingly commanded the sea to withdraw from the _Gowkern_, a hill near Mangalore, all the way to Cape Comorin; which new land long remained marshy and scarcely habitable, and the original settlers were forced to abandon it on account of the numerous serpents by which it was infested: But they afterwards returned, being instructed to propitiate the serpents by worshipping them."

"At first this country was divided into four _Tookrees_ or provinces, these into _Naadhs_ or districts, and these again into _Khunds_ or small precincts. The Bramins established a kind of republican or aristocratical government, under a few principal chiefs; but jealousies and disturbances taking place, they procured a _Permaul_ or chief governor from the prince of Chaldesh, a sovereignty in the southern Carnatic:

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