157 
This is much less obscure in application than the 
proverb which precedes it ; lavish offerings to the Gods 
do not wipe away a sin. 
4418. F BA, 2 Ot BSH) DOTEOIDAS FS. 
This reads literally, “a chank broken ; mud dissolved ” 
signifying the impossibility of mending some happenings. 
4419, FHG FESO Qo oumuyw, 
‘The chank’s breech and the mendicant’s mouth”, a 
saying applied to things in frequent contact or assoc.a- 
tion. 
A420, FHICDS FIT QD gor Oevasor wih H-" (7 B. 
“Though you burn a chank, its whiteness is not 
diminished.” 
Lastly we have : 
46GB arr ssrw S155, F_VQQ arigsra g oor 
S00F iT 
“Tf you pour (water) into a chank (it becomes) holy 
water ; if you pour (it) into a pot (it is merely) water.’ 
(£) For PersonaL ADORNMENT. 
In personal adornment, and apart from any uses 
it is put to in the form of amulets, the chank-shell is 
employed principally as the crude material wherefrom 
beautiful bracelets of many patterns are made for use in 
Bengal and the adjoining provinces ; subsidiary uses to 
which it is put is to fashion from it finger rings, necklaces, 
disc ornaments for headdresses and caps, and as a recent 
addition, coat and dress buttons. 
ashe bangle industry in all phases is treated separately 
and at full length i in Section 11 {to which the_ reader ts 
referred for all details. 
Rings actually made from chank-shell are not manu- 
factured in any quantity ; their place is taken largely by 
those sawn from a much smaller shell, a species of 
Strombus, found on the Ramnad coast of the Gulf of 
Mannar. So far as I can learn, the industry is localized 
at Kilakarai, a seaport of Ramnad inhabited largely by 
Muhammadan (Labbai) fishermen, pearl-fishers and 
chank-divers. The rings are usually exported with a 
minimum of finish ; only the roughness of the edge is 
rubbed off and nearly always the chestnut stippling 
