Aranai (lizard) [99]
Aravān or Kūttāndar, festival, [152]–3
Areca nut, [20]–1, [31], [49], [68], [283], [286]
—— palm (Areca Catechu), [130], [177]
Arka (Calotropis gigantea), [51]–2, [53], [68], [186], [195]; marriage, [51]
Arrack, [236], [242], [245], [251], [253], [295]
—— vendors, superstition, [32]
Ashes, ceremonial use, [21], [45], [115], [138], [186], [220], [229], [293], [296];
effigies, [44], [307];
from burial ground, [242];
of meriah victim, [204]; omens, [16], [18];
sacred, [103], [182], [212], [270]–1, [294], [306]