are spread. The corpse is placed in the grave in a sitting posture. As in the case of a Sanyāsi, who is a Jivanmukta, or one liberated from the bondage of the flesh though alive in body, so a dead Pishārati is believed to have no suitable body requiring to be entertained with any post-mortem offerings. A few memorial rites are, however, performed. On the eleventh day, a ceremony corresponding to the ekoddishta srādh of the Brāhman is carried out. A knotted piece of kusa grass, representing the soul of the deceased, is taken to a neighbouring temple, where a lighted lamp, symbolical of Maha Vishnu is worshipped, and prayers are offered. This ceremony is repeated at the end of the first year.*[1]
Some Pishāratis are large land-owners of considerable wealth and influence.†[2]
Pīsu Perike. — Perikes who weave gunny-bags.
Pītakālu (dais, on which a priest sits). — An exogamous sept of Oddē.
Pittalavādu. — A Telugu name for Kuruvikkārans.
Podapōtula.—A class of mendicants, who beg from Gollas.
Podara Vannān. — The Podara, Podarayan or Pothora Vannāns are washermen of inferior social status, who wash clothes for Pallans, Paraiyans, and other low classes.
Podhāno.— Recorded, at times of census, as a title of Bolāsi, Gaudo, Kālingi, Kudumo, and Sāmantiya. The Sāmantiyas also frequently give it as the name of their caste.
Poduvāl. —Defined by Mr. Wigram ‡[3] as one of the Ambalavāsi castes, the members of which are as a rule employed as temple watchmen. Writing concerning
