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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
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      "chunk_data": "19. VEERA RAGHAVA PATTAYAM, COPPER PLATE GRANT TO IRAVI KORTAN (1225 A.D.)\n\nThis copper plate grant was given by King Veera Raghava to one Iravi Kortan, who was apparently the head of the Christian merchants.",
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      "chunk_data": "They are at present under the custody of the Orthodox Church. They are written in Tamil-Malayalam.",
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      "chunk_data": "A translation is available in Nagam Aiya, The Travancore State Manual, pp. 125-126, and in the words of Kookel Kelu Nair in The Madras Journal of Literature and Science. Cited in C. V. Cherian, A History of Christianity in Kerala, pp. 118-119.",
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        "event": "The grant's translation is cited from works by Nagam Aiya, Kookel Kelu Nair, and C. V. Cherian.",
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      "chunk_data": "Beginning from Sri Veera Kerala, the Earth Ruler, the Man-Lord, the Emperor, the sceptre has been swayed through a regular succession of many hundred thousands of years, when Sri Veera Raghava Chukravurthi (the Emperor Veera Raghava) was in possession of the country and was seated in the Royal Palace, (the following grant was made) in the year when Jupiter was in Capricornus on the twenty-first of the month of Meenam, Saturday, when, (as it is further implied) Saturn was in Pisces and the day of Rohini the fourth Asterism.",
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      "chunk_title": "Manigramam Granted to Iravi Kortan",
      "chunk_data": "We have given Manigramam (the village called Mani) to Iravi Kortan (Curten) of the town of Mahadevor, the grand Chettiar (merchant) of the Cheraman's country.",
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      "chunk_data": "We have also given to him the right of Peelavata, of having Pavanatungum house Pillar and of receiving Purooperooma and Kadatoo and further the honour of having Valinchiyem and Tanichett in Valinchiyam and moreover of having the privileges of Moora Cholloo and Moomata and Puncha Vaddium and Changoo and Pakal Veluka and Pavata Aymtolom and Coda and Vadooca Para and Idopati and Toranom and Tanichett, over the four Cheries, in the city of Manigramam.",
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      "chunk_title": "Laborers Granted as Slaves",
      "chunk_data": "Moreover we have given him as slaves the oil manufacturers and the Ainkoody Cummalers.",
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      "chunk_data": "We have given to the Lord of the town, Iravi Kortan, the Taragoo and Choomkom of all that may be meted by the Para, weighed by the balance or",
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