1838.] Account of the Ydnddujdti. 181 



of Pdla-Vamchcha Vhadrdchalam in Sal. Sac. 1635, (A. D. 

 1712-13.) 



The Chenju people live to the westward of Ahobalam, Sri-Sailam 

 and other places, in the woods or wilds ; and go about constantly carry- 

 ing- in their hands bows and arrows. They clothe themselves with leaves, 

 and live on the sago, or rice, of the bamboo. They rob travellers, 

 killing them if they oppose. " This people afflict every living creature :" 

 (kill for food is supposed to be meant.) 



The Irala people carry bows and arrows, and wander in the forests. 

 They are thieves. The Ydnddu class alone do not plunder. They 

 are employed as watchmen : they collect a kind of bark and roots, used 

 for dyeing red, bringing heavy loads, and receive whatever the sircar is 

 pleased to give in return. They chiefly live on a kind of white root and 

 wild-honey. The sircar employs them as watchmen. In the woods 

 near Sri-hdri-cotta there are forty of these Ydnddu people (supposed 

 to be heads of families). The sircar gives to the head man of these 

 people twelve maracals of rice monthly : in return he delivers sometimes 

 ten bundles (each five hundred lbs.) of the dyeing bark. The others, 

 who do not carry on this intercourse, live in their own manner in the 

 forest on white roots and honey. This handful of Ydnddu people seem 

 to be comparatively separated ; for if they attempt to hold intercourse 

 with others of that tribe at a distance, they are killed ; and their wives 

 are carried off : the others bold no intercourre with them. Such, as 

 far as could be obtained, is an account of these Ydnddu people obtained 

 from Ja'ra'marudu, as far as he could give information. 



Remarks. This paper was read over by me a year or two since, 

 without any other remark than that there were people in the Peninsula 

 of whom Europeans had received little or no information. It now 

 attracted attention chiefly from its following the preceding papers and 

 from wishing to dispose of the entire book, No. 31, without need of 

 future reference. But reading it now after having had previously in 

 hand the paper on the Khoi-jati mountaineers of Goomsoor, (Mad. Jour, 

 of L. and S. No. 16,) termed Codalu, in the Telugu paper therein 

 translated, it appears to assume more importance than otherwise I should 

 have attributed to it. For it seems that the proper term is neither 

 Khoi, nor Codalu, but Cdyu-jdti (in the ordinary pronunciation to the 

 ear very similar to the enunciation of Khoi-jati), and that they are a sub- 

 division of a much larger body of people. I am confirmed in my suppo- 

 sition that the so termed B'heels of the north in Gujerat, &c. are of the 

 same kind of people, though seemingly more closely analogous to the 

 Chenju, or Irala, class. As regards the seeming absurdity of the 

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