[100] Vide, Yule and Burnell, "Hobson-Jobson," ed. 1903, 874-9.
[102] Bishop Whitehead, Madras Diocesan Magazine, July, 1906.
[103] Rev. F. Dahmen, "Anthropos," 1908, iii. 22.
[106] M. Upendra Pai, Madras Christian Coll. Mag., 1895., xiii., No. 1, 29.
[107] Mem. Asiat. Soc., Bengal, 1906, i., No. 10.
[108] T. K. Gopal Panikkar, "Madras and its Folk," Madras, 2nd ed., 65-6.
[109] "Manual of the Cuddapah District," 1875, 293-4.
[111] "Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam District," 1907, i. 286.
[112] "Manual of the South Canara District," 1895, ii. 242.
[113] "Mysore Census Report," 1891, part i. 235.
[114] S. K. Sundara Charlu, Indian Review, 1905, vi., No. 6, 421.
[115] "Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District," 1907, i. 283.
[116] "Manual of the Cuddapah District," 1875, 288.
[117] "Plagues and Pleasures of Life in Bengal," 1907, 196-8.
[122] Grant Duff, "Notes from an Indian Diary, 1881-1886."
[123] L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, "The Cochin Tribes and Castes," 1909, i. 166.
[124] F. Fawcett, Madras Museum Bull., 1901, iii., No 3, 309.
[126] D'Alviella, "The Migration of Symbols," 1894, introduction; and Times (London), 3rd September, 1891.
[127] Madras Museum Bull., 1906, v., No. 2, 86-7.
[130] The Nayadis are a polluting class, whose approach within 300 feet is said to contaminate a Brahman.
[131] L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, "The Cochin Tribes and Castes," 1909, i. 55-6.
[132] M. J. Walhouse, Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1890, xix. 56.
[133] "Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 89.
[136] A tarawad means a family, consisting of all the descendants in the female line of one common female ancestor.
[137] The senior male in a tarawad or tarwad.
[138] See Calcutta Review, July, 1901, cxiii. 21-5.
[139] Laterite is a reddish geological formation, found all over Southern India.
[140] Madras Christian Coll. Mag., 1895, xiii., No. 1, 24-5.
[141] 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.
[142] Indian Patriot, 13th January, 1908.
[143] Elayads, Ilayatus, or Nambiyatiris, are priests at most of the snake groves on the west coast.