[27] Op. cit.
[28] Ibid.
[29] The Nambūtiris take objection to a statement of Mr. Logan, in the Manual of Malabar, that the Vādhyar shuts the door, and locks it.
[30] Orissa. Annals of Rural Bengal.
[31] By keeping a lamp lighted at the fire perpetually alight, or by heating a piece of plāsu or darbha grass in the fire, and putting it away carefully.
[32] An āmana palaga or āma palaga, literally tortoise plank, is a low wooden seat of chamatha wood, supposed to be shaped like a tortoise in outline.
[33] The accounts of marriage and death ceremonies in the Gazetteer of Malabar are from a grandhavari.
[34] Ind. Law Reports, Madras Series, XII, 1889.
[35] Madras Census Report, 1901.
[36] The proverb Chetti Chidambaram is well known.