[87] An Enangan or Inangan is a man of the same caste and sub-division or marriage group. It is usually translated “kinsman,” but is at once wider and narrower in its connotation. My Enangans are all who can marry the same people that I can. An Enangatti is a female member of an Enangan’s family.
[88] The aimpuli or “five tamarinds” are Tamarindus indica, Garcinia Cambogia, Spondias mangifera, Bauhinia racemosa, and Hibiscus hirtus.
[89] The eldest male member of the taravād is called the Karanavan. All male members, brothers, nephews, and so on, who are junior to him, are called Anandravans of the taravād.
[90] All caste Hindus who perform the srādh ceremonies calculate the day of death, not by the day of the month, but by the thithis (day after full or new moon).
[91] Nineteenth Century, 1904.
[92] L’Inde (sans les Anglais).
[93] Letters from Malabar.
[94] January, 1899.
[95] See Thurston. Catalogue of Roman, etc., Coins, Madras Government Museum, 2nd ed., 1894.
[96] Malabar and its Folk, 1900.