[83] Manual of the Ganjam district.

[84] Madras Census Report, 1891.

[85] Manual of the North Arcot district.

[86] Religious Thought and Life in India.

[87] Christianity and Caste, 1893.

[88] In the Vēdic verse the word used for my brothers literally means your husbands.

[89] A hōtri is one who presides at the time of sacrifices.

[90] Madras Christian College Magazine, March, 1903.

[91] Religious Thought and Life in India.

[92] See Thurston, Ethnographic Notes in Southern India, 1906, pp. 229–37.