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" The proper name of the place is Colicodu. When Cheruman Permal had divided Malabar among his nobles, and had no principality remaining to bestow on the ancestor of the Tamuri, he gave that chief his sword, with all the territory in which a cock crowing... "
Handbook of the Madras Presidency: With a Notice of the Overland Route to India - Page 261
by John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1879 - 415 pages
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A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of ..., Volume 23

William Fordyce Mavor - 1810 - 408 pages
...Malabar among his nobles* and had no principality remaining to bestow on. the ancestor of the Tamuri, he gave that chief his sword, with all the territory in which a cock crowing at'a small temple here could be heard-. This formed the original dominions of the Tamuri, and was called...
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Maritime Geography and Statistics ...

James Hingston Tuckey - 1815 - 588 pages
...Malabar ainourrst his nobles and had no principality to bestow on the ancestor of the Ttimuri (Zainorin), he gave that chief his sword, with all the territory, in which, a co< k crowing at a small temple here could be heard ; this turmoil the original dominions of the Tamuri,...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 5

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...principality to bestow on the ancestor of the Tamuri (Zamorin). He therefore gave that chief his iword, NRa Y $nI.2 w ; henc- these, his original dominions of the Tamuri, were called Calicodu, or cock crowing. The place...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 6

1836 - 600 pages
...country among his nobles, and had no principality remaining to bestow on the ancestor of the Tamuri, he gave that chief his sword, with all the territory in which a cock crowing at a small temple in the town could be heard. This formed the original dominions of the Tamuri, and was called Colicodu,...
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 6

1836 - 528 pages
...that chief his sword, with all the t'-rritory in which a cock crowing at a small temple in the t . ni could be heard. This formed the original dominions of the Tamuri, and was called Cohcodu, or the cock-crowiiig. This place continued to be the chief residence of the Tamuri rajahs...
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Madras

John Murray (Firm) - 1859 - 412 pages
...chieftains, had nothing left to bestow on the Tamuri. Whereupon, he gave his sword to that chief " with all the territory in which a cock, crowing at...be heard. This formed the original dominions of the Tamurin, and was called Kolikodu, or the cock-crowing." — (See Buchanan's Mysore, ii, 474.) The town...
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Local Etymology: A Derivative Dictionary of Geographical Names

Richard Stephen Charnock - 1859 - 784 pages
...country among his nobles, and had no principality remaining to bestow on the ancestor of the Tamuri, he gave that chief his sword, with all the territory in which a cock, crowing at a small temple in the town, could be heard. This formed the original dominions of the Tamnri, and was called Colicodu,...
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Local Etymology: A Derivative Dictionary of Geographical Names

Richard Stephen Charnock - 1859 - 344 pages
...that chief his sword, with all the territory in which a cock, crowing at a small temple in the town, could be heard. This formed the original dominions...Tamuri, and was called Colicodu, or the cock-crowing. CAL'LANDER, a parish in Scotland. The name is generally supposed to be derived from Gael. calladh a...
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A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social: From ..., Volume 1

Henry Beveridge (Advocate) - 1862 - 756 pages
...after dividing his territories among his other chieftains, had nothing more remaining to bestow than his sword, " with all the territory in which a cock crowing at a small temple here could be heard " ' The territory thus assigned took, from the singular nature of the grant, the name of Colico-du,...
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A Handbook for Travellers in India, Ceylon and Burma: Including the ...

John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1894 - 654 pages
...Malabar among his nobles, and had no principality remaining to bestow on the ancestor of the Tamuri, he gave that chief his sword, with all the territory...and was called Colicodu, or the cock-crowing." The native town is but little above the level of the sea. There is a long bazaar with numerous mall cross...
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