COPY OF GAZETTE ISSUED BY THE COLLECTOR OF SOUTH ARCOT WITH REGARDS TO

VALLALAAR'S DISAPPEARANCE;

EXTRACT FROM PAGE 316-317 OF MADRAS DISTRICT GAZETTEERS-SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT

BY W.FRANCIS I.C.S.

" RAMALINGA PARADESI SEEMS TO HAVE PERSUADED HIS DISCIPLES THAT THEY WOULD RISE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD, AND HE CONSEQUENTLY URGED THAT BURIAL WAS PREFERABLE

TO CREMATION .EVEN BRAHMINS ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN BURRIED IN THIS BEHALF , AND PEOPLE WHO DIED IN OTHER VILLAGES WERE IN SEVERAL CASES BROUGHT TO VADALUR AND INTERRED THERE. IN 1874 HE LOCKED HIMSELF IN A ROOM (STILL IN EXISTENCE)IN METTUKUPPAM(HAMLET OF KARUNGUZHI) WHICH HE USED FOR SAMAADHI OR MYSTIC MEDITAION ,AND INSTRUCTED HIS DISCIPLES NOT TO OPEN IT FOR SOME TIME. HE HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN SINCE.AND THE ROOM IS STILL LOCKED.IT IS HELD BY THOSE WHO STILL BELIEVE IN HIM THAT HE WAS MIRACULOUSLY MADE ONE WITH HIS GOD AND THAT IN FULNESS OF TIME HE WILL REAPPEAR TO THE FAITHFUL.WHATEVER MAY BE THE THOUGHT OF HIS CLAIMS TO BE A RELIGIOUS LEADER , IT IS GENERALLY ADMITTED BY THOSE WHO ARE JUDGES OF SUCH MATTERS THAT HIS POEMS ,AND HIS STORY IS WORTH NOTING AS AN INDICATION OF THE DIRECTIONS WHICH RELIGIOUS FERVOUR MAY STILL TAKE.

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COMMISSIONERS OF HINDU RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENT IN THE CAPACITY OF JUDGES HAVE GIVEN THEIR JUDGEMENT ORDER NO. 387 DATED 12.2.1935

IN THIS ORDER ALSO THE JUDGES HAVE GIVEN CLEARLY THEIR STATEMENT THAT VALLALAAR HAS DISAPPEARED. ,

"WE HAVE ALREADY REFERRED TO THE PATTAMATRAL RAZINAMA OF 1867 EXHIBIT III SERIES. THOUGH THEY ARE ALL EXECUTED IN FAVOUR OF APPASWAMI CHETTIAR VAGAIRAS REFERRING

TO THE SANMARGA SANGAM,ALL OF THEM DESIGNATE THE FOUNDER OF THE PERSON IN WHOSE NAME THE PATTA MIGHT STAND. THE PATTA APPEARS TO H AVE CONTINUED IN HIS NAME TILL 1880,WHEN EVIDENTLY LAPSE OF SEVEN YEARS FROM HIS DISAPPEARANCE, A NOTIFICATION WAS ISSUED IN THE DISTRICT GAZETTE PROPOSING TRANSFER OF REGISTRU IN THE NAMES OF FOUR PERSONS DESCRIBED AS AGENTS OF THE SWAMIGAL. THIS NOTIFICATION DATED 11.10.1880/.