[2] Grant Duff, “Notes from an Indian Diary, 1881–1886.”
[3] L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, “The Cochin Tribes and Castes,” 1909, i. 166.
[4] F. Fawcett, Madras Museum Bull., 1901, iii., No 3, 309.
[5] Malabar, 1887, i. 175.
[6] D’Alviella, “The Migration of Symbols,” 1894, introduction; and Times (London), 3rd September, 1891.
[7] Madras Museum Bull., 1906, v., No. 2, 86–7.
[8] Madras Mail, 26th January, 1906.
[9] Leviticus, viii. 29.
[10] The Nāyādis are a polluting class, whose approach within 300 feet is said to contaminate a Brāhman.
[11] L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, “The Cochin Tribes and Castes,” 1909, i. 55–6.