Keralolpathi

P. Shungunny Menon ascribes the authorship of this work to Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan, a 17th-century scholar of the Malabar region of India.

For instance it states that a certain Viceroy of Kerala went to Mecca and met the Islamic prophet Muhammed there.

Therefore, according to Shungunny Menon (a native historian of Travancore, Kerala) one cannot place, in the Keralolpathi, the value of a historical source.

Shungunny Menon, stated that: numerous discrepancies and glaring mistakes are visible for we find the authors in their anxiety to prove the correctness of their accounts confusing occurrences of the modern age with those of the ancient...it is obvious that on a work such as the Kerala Ulpathy little reliance can be placedWilliam Logan, who was the author of the Malabar Manual also refutes the validity of the Keralolpathi and describes it as:[6] a farrago of legendary nonsense having for its definite aim the securing of the Brahmin caste of unbounded power and influence in the countryK.

P. Padmanabha Menon, another native historian calls the Keralolpathi:[7]an ill digested and uncollated collection of different versions huddled together in inextricable confusion