Part 31

Vol. i. 105.

"Gazetteer of the South Arcot District," 1906, i. 102.

"Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 70.

Sesha or Adisesha is the serpent, on which Vishnu is often represented as reclining.

"Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 188.

See the Skanda Purana.

Other colossal statues of Gummatta are at Karkal and Venur or Yenur in South Canara.

The feast of lights (dipa, lights, avali, a row).

See Bishop Whitehead, "The Village Deities of Southern India," Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v. No. 3.

Ibid., 1901, iii. No. 3, 270-1.

"Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 219.

Madras Dioc. Mag., November, 1910.

See Fawcett, Note on the Mouth-lock Vow, Journ. Anthrop. Soc., Bombay, i. 97-102.

"Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District," 1907, i. 289.

Scottish Standard Bearer, November 1907.

The Patnulkarans claim to be Saurashtra Brahmans.

"Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 71.

"Gazetteer of the Madura District," i. 86.

"Primitive Tribes of the Nilagiris," 1873, 17.

Sudra is the fourth traditional caste of Manu.

"Manual of the North Arcot District," 1895, i. 242.

Mysore Census Report, 1901, part i. 519.

Basavi, see article "Deva-dasi" in my "Castes and Tribes of Southern India," 1909, ii. 125-53.

"Manual of the Cuddapah District", 1875, 283.

Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v. No. 3, 149.

"Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District," 1907, i. 289.

Jeypore, Breklum, 1901.

"Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, 1. 72.