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INDEX

Kallan, a caste, 29, 69.

Kurichan, a hill tribe, 91. Kamban, 219, 262; date of, 51; Kurumbas, a tribe, 13, 69.

lectured in Malabar, 343, Kammalas, thread wearing by, Language, no safe test of race,

75, 77, 108 ; in Malabar, 104 ; 13; changes in its growth, origin of the, 85,-88; their 115; morphol. gical classifi

version of caste disputes, 97. cation of, 147. Kanakasabhai, Mr. V., his etymo- Left-hand castes, 95.

logy of the word Tamil,7; his Lemurian theory, the, 21, 33. theory of Mongolian origin, Letters, number and order in 13, 25, 192 ; on Early Chera Tamil, 132, 137; peculiar to kings, 272; on the Pandiya Tamil, 134; combination; 117; kings, 385.

levelling' in Malayalain, 368. Kanchipuram, description of, 76; Linguistic affinity, 153,

origin of caste disputes at, 99. Literary forgeries, very common Kannappa Nayanar, a saint, 29. in Tamil, 197. kannassa Ramayanain, 360. Loan words, how to delect, 155. kapilar, 15, 216, 268, 270, Locality and communities, 73.

271; as name of three different Logan, Mr., on the derivation

poets, 197; not a Paraiya, 248. of Kizhakku,' 315, 412. Kappiyanar, a poet, 266.

Long 6 and 9, 51, 61. karukkalaani, a saint, 403. Lydekker, Prof., 18. Karaiyan, a fishing caste, 72. Karanam, a caste, 75.

Macdonell, Prof. A. A., 118, Katantra, a grammar, i1S.

M'Crindle, Mr. J. W., 44 Kaveripatam, destruction of, 60. Madigas, leather workers, 101. Kaysina Valudi, age of, 252. Madura, the Southern, 210; kuslararnblus, a student of seat of Tamil learning, 256 ; Agastya, 397.

Sangams, 232; purana, 391-6. Keane, Dr., AH., 19; on Tolka- Mahabharata, 1; interpolations pyam, 138.

in the, 51; its popularity, 52; Kerala, a Kodum-Tamil country, translated, 256, 393; date of

264, 341 : Namhudris owner the war, 239. ship oi, 350.

Mahawanso, on the caste disKhonds, a hill tribo, 90.

putes, 102. Kings, duties of Hindu, 108. Mahishyas, a mixed caste, 75. Kocchengannan,age ot, 250,319. Makkal (Dravidians), 10. Kodum-Tamil, where used, 142. Malabar, a kodum-Tamil counKol-Ayan, a shepherd caste, 353. try, 344; castes and the Koliyans, weavers, 80.

Tainils, 351; temples in, 547. konatiri, meaning of, 353. Malaiman, a caste, 101. Kuttayam plates, 360.

Malasar, a hill trine, 56. Krishigata, a poem, 360. Malalalam, a dialect of Tamil, Kshatriyas, 59, 103,

9, 375; not an infectional Kudumi or tuft of hair, 389.

language, 119; meaning of, Kulasckluralvur, a Chera-Tamil 341; early literature in, 357; saint 309, 343.

and vulgar Tamil, 367; gramkunilalakesi, a Jaina work, 219. mar, 365, 366-369; levelling Kunnalakon, meaning of, 353. process in, 368 ; vocabulary, Kural, li3; Sanskrit influence in 369-371 ; why separated the, 1994.

from Tamil, 371-6.