Manuscripts: Endowments (legal property)

MAHS-MDV-COL-003-O-0137

Document detailing the amounts of coconuts, coconut oil, coir rope, thatch bundle, and chicken required by the people of Hangnaameedhoo to maintain Kalaafaanu ziyaaraiyy. An English translation of this text has been published in: Ahmed Nazim Sattar, King Kalaafaan Manuscripts: How the Maldives Monarchy Treasured the Remembrance of a Fallen King for More than Four Hundred Years (Malé: National Centre of Linguistic and Historical Research, 2010), 67. This work is open-access available from the Virtual Library of the Maldives Heritage Survey website. The original document is kept in the Maldives National Archives in Male’.