Part 30

L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, "The Cochin Tribes and Castes," 1909, i. 166.

F. Fawcett, Madras Museum Bull., 1901, iii., No 3, 309.

Malabar, 1887, i. 175.

D'Alviella, "The Migration of Symbols," 1894, introduction; and Times (London), 3rd September, 1891.

Madras Museum Bull., 1906, v., No. 2, 86-7.

Madras Mail, 26th January, 1906.

Leviticus, viii. 29.

The Nayadis are a polluting class, whose approach within 300 feet is said to contaminate a Brahman.

L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, "The Cochin Tribes and Castes," 1909, i. 55-6.

M. J. Walhouse, Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1890, xix. 56.

"Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 89.

"Note on the Koravas," 1908.

Madras Standard, 2nd June, 1903.

A tarawad means a family, consisting of all the descendants in the female line of one common female ancestor.

The senior male in a tarawad or tarwad.

See Calcutta Review, July, 1901, cxiii. 21-5.

Laterite is a reddish geological formation, found all over Southern India.

Madras Christian Coll. Mag., 1895, xiii., No. 1, 24-5.

The pipal or aswatha (Ficus religiosa). Many villages have such a tree with a platform erected round it, on which are carved figures of the elephant god Ganesa, and cobras. Village panchayats (councils) are often held on this platform.

Indian Patriot, 13th January, 1908.

Elayads, Ilayatus, or Nambiyatiris, are priests at most of the snake groves on the west coast.

Calcutta Review, July, 1901, cxiii. 21.

"Malabar and its Folk," Madras, 2nd ed., 150.

Madras Standard, 2nd June, 1903.

"Gazetteer of Malabar," 1908, i. 112.

See "Men and Women of India," February, 1906.

"The Cochin Tribes and Castes," 1909, i. 153-4.

"Malabar and its Folk," Madras, 2nd ed., 147-8.