[144] Calcutta Review, July, 1901, cxiii. 21.
[145] "Malabar and its Folk," Madras, 2nd ed., 150.
[147] "Gazetteer of Malabar," 1908, i. 112.
[148] See "Men and Women of India," February, 1906.
[149] "The Cochin Tribes and Castes," 1909, i. 153-4.
[150] "Malabar and its Folk," Madras, 2nd ed., 147-8.
[152] "Gazetteer of the South Arcot District," 1906, i. 102.
[153] "Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 70.
[154] Sesha or Adisesha is the serpent, on which Vishnu is often represented as reclining.
[157] Other colossal statues of Gummatta are at Karkal and Venur or Yenur in South Canara.
[158] The feast of lights (dipa, lights, avali, a row).
[159] See Bishop Whitehead, "The Village Deities of Southern India," Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v. No. 3.
[161] "Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 219.
[163] See Fawcett, Note on the Mouth-lock Vow, Journ. Anthrop. Soc., Bombay, i. 97-102.
[164] "Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District," 1907, i. 289.
[165] Scottish Standard Bearer, November 1907.
[166] The Patnulkarans claim to be Saurashtra Brahmans.
[167] "Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 71.
[168] "Gazetteer of the Madura District," i. 86.
[169] "Primitive Tribes of the Nilagiris," 1873, 17.
[170] Sudra is the fourth traditional caste of Manu.
[171] "Manual of the North Arcot District," 1895, i. 242.
[172] Mysore Census Report, 1901, part i. 519.
[173] Basavi, see article "Deva-dasi" in my "Castes and Tribes of Southern India," 1909, ii. 125-53.
[174] "Manual of the Cuddapah District", 1875, 283.
[175] Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v. No. 3, 149.
[176] "Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District," 1907, i. 289.
[178] "Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, 1. 72.
[179] "Gazetteer of the Madura District," 1906, i. 86-7.
[181] Madras Museum Bull., 1906, v., No. 2, 78-9.
[182] Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v., No. 3, 149.
[184] The Pallis claim to be descendants of the fire race (Agnikula) of the Kshatriyas, and that, as they and the Pandava brothers were born of fire, they are related.
[185] "Gazetteer of the South Arcot District," 1906, i. 375-6.
[186] "Gazetteer of the Madura District," 1906, i. 85.
[187] "Narrative of Little's Detachment," 1794, 212-3.
[188] Lambadis or Brinjaris, who formerly acted as carriers of supplies and baggage in times of war in the Deccan.