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therefore, date back to about the eighth century. There is little
doubt that Ayyvoe was the place of their origin, for not only
did they call themselves the yIvoe or the Five Hundred of
Ayyvoe but they also named many of the places where they
had established themselvea in later times as Southern Ayyvoes
(Teftka Ayvoe) In most of their inscriptions of the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries, the members of this community claim
to have come from Ahichchatra in North India It is not possible
to say how far this claim is true. But it is not impossible
that some of the wandering traders from North India were responsible
for the founding of a mercantile body which later grew into
this powerful community.
The name of this community has been the subject
of various interpretations by different scholars. In most of
the Kannada inscriptions, it appears as the Five Hundred Svznina
of Ayyv4e (Ayyv4eya Ayn!rvva Svmig4u) Several variants
of this name occur in the Tamil epigraphe, such as tciticai-1yirattu-airruvar
(live Hundred of the Thousand Directions
of the Several Countriea)
1. V, p. 325 of the text.
2. .E.R. for 1906, No. 180 of 1905.
3. VIII, p. 89 of the text.
$A-NiL..tc..Ii4* S.c4ri, '4 Ptvo%. G1'J.
k.,(Tiidschrift Voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, LXXII,
1932, p. 318.