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Eookveds, and are separated into three sections, the "Wurnassaloo, 

 the Kummoorookooloo, and the Kummeekumloo, the last original- 

 ly from the Karnatic. The first two intermarry, but do not take 

 wives from the last, in all probability because they are foreigners ; 

 all eat together. Those who affect the second veda are called Ye- 

 joorvadees, and, like the former one, are sub-divided into 1st Math- 

 injunooloo, 2d Telingani, 3d Mowkeenaroo, 4th Ahraduloo, 5th 

 Yagneawulkooloo, 6th Kassomaroo, 7th Velnaroo. Of these the 

 first are deemed the highest caste, they make poojah to the sun, 

 when they bathe, and also to the full moon. The Yejoorvadees, 

 with the exception of the Ahraduloo who are Lingayets, may inter- 

 marry, generally speaking, with the first two classes of Bookveds, 

 and the offspring of such marriages may, without derogation, look 

 on the first Veda as the more holy book, but then again there is 

 little intermarrying between the different denominations of the Ye- 

 joorved, they keep in their marriages to their own sect, with the ex- 

 ception of the Veluars and Telinghees, who intermarry sometimes. 

 There may be a good deal of sectarian hate, at the bottom of this, 

 for intermarriages are determined by the parties having the same 

 gooroo, whose interest it is to promote matrimonial alliances, among 

 the members of his own flock. The Veluars are common in the Ni- 

 zam's Telinganah, the Moorkenars to the south of the Kistnah 

 the Yaynahs towards Masulipatam and the Mathinjunnum about 

 Maiduck, where there are numbers also of the ^Wurnassooloo. 

 There are a few followers of the third ved. called the Samvedis who 

 pay adoration to both Yishna and Mahded. The Bamannj are di- 

 vided into Wurhullah, and Tenghullah, these eat and intermarry, 

 but marriage of kindred is strictly forbidden. The chief external 

 mark of this sect is their eating in secret, they are also divided 

 into sects according to their veds. 



The Mudwacharyahs are looked on as foreigners, their great 

 G od is Hunnooman whom they describe as an incarnation of Vish- 

 nu, by a singular and very palpable Anachronism. Both the 

 Hamannj and Mudwacharyaloo are branded on the arm by their 

 gooroos, from which ceremony the Swamarts are exempt. The 

 Lingayet Brahmins lord it over their disciples who receive them 

 with great honor, they are held to be ; by the other Brahmin sects, 

 the worst of heretics. 



It w lawful for a Brahmin to marry four wives, provided he ah 



