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A cow, adu sheep, anai elephant, erumai buffalo, kapi 

 monkey, karaiyau whiteant, ko cow, kokku crane, man deer, 

 mayil peacock, nag snake, nari, fox or jackal, puli tiger, and 

 punai cat. 



(3.) The chief fact learnt from a cursory study of the onoma- 

 tology of the Kaveri delta appears to he the 

 universal influence of Brahmanical civilization 

 upon an industrious agricultural population of indigenous origin. 



Siva worship seems to be the religion of the majority, but 

 there is a very large admixture of demonolatrous superstition. 



Isvara (in combination -esvar) so common in South Indian 

 place-names is the same as, and the common name for, Siva, and 

 is usually found in the names of his temples, or those of the 

 presiding deities in whose form or under whose name he is there 

 worshipped. 



TANJORE PLACE-NAMES. 



Place-names met with mostly in the Kdveri Delta and Ta.njon 

 District. 



Achuthapuram 

 Adaiyar . , 



Ativlraramapattanam 

 on the Argaric Gulf. 



( A second name of Saliamangalam, after Atchu- 

 ( thappa Nayakar (king) of Tan j ore. 



!' Choked river. ' Fr. adai to be choked, as a river 

 by sand : cf . The ' Adyar ' River, Madras ; 

 adaippu, obstruction. 



f ' Adrampatam ' of Ind. Atlas Sheet No. 80 = 

 Ati-Vira-Rama's town, or seaport town ; Ati- 

 Vira-Rama (Great-Hero-Rama) one of the 

 Pandiyan princes of Madura ; situate at the head 

 of Palk's Bay, the Argaric gulf (Sinus Argalicus) 

 so named perhaps from Atrahkarai (arrankarai) 

 the 'AyxeipovrroAis of Ptolemy, at the mouth of 

 the Vaigai river. 'Ayxeipov however looks like 

 Anaikarai, the ancient name of Adam's Bridge, so 

 <^ called by the Tamils as being the bridge or 

 causeway par excellence. The early Arab voyagers 

 called it (and the country beyond and about it) 

 Ma'abar which in Arabic signifies ferry, ford, 

 passage = " The Straits " as we should say. In 

 the middle ages, before Pamban was separated from 

 the main land by the storm that breached the 

 famous causeway, there is said to have been a great 

 city, remains of which are still to be seen on the 



^spit of sand opposite to Pamban. 



