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ON THE NAMES OF 



Aduturai 



Agaram 5 or Akaram 



Agaraputtur 

 Agasaveli 



Agraram 

 Akarattur 



Alangudi 



Alasigudi 

 Alattur .. 



Alaveli 



Amaravatham 



Ambalapattu 

 Ammangudi 



Ammapettai 

 Anai-karai 



' Audathoray" 1 of A.S. 79 = ' Sheep-ford, ' at the 

 passage of the two river -channels 8 miles N.E. 

 of Kumbhakonam, from adu sheep, and turai 

 \ (q.v.) a ford, passage or resort. 



/ A common form of agraharam in Tan j ore, 

 S which the Tamils cannot pronounce properly ; a 

 i street, or village, of Brahmans ; also a dwelling, 

 ' mansion, place. 



Agra-pudu-ur = chief -new-town. 



j Fr. Agasam, the sky, air, and veli the air, the 

 » open ( = the open air), a plain, desert. 



I For S. agraharam, a royal gift of land to Brah- 

 < mans ; a Brahman village or street. Having no 

 ( aspirate the Tamil form is akkirakaram. 



Prime Attur ; attur is a frequent place-name in 

 S.E. India, commonly applied to a village 

 ) by a river ar or aru ; in combination ar becomes 

 \ att as Attahkarai = river side. 



f 1 Banyan- habitation ;' al the Ficus Indica or 

 Bengalensis, and kudi a dwelling. This is one of 



/ the commonest place-names in Tan j ore. Brahmans 



| derive the name from alam the deadly poison 

 <{ which arose at the mythical churning of the milk- 

 ocean and was swallowed by Siva. The Tamil 

 poet Kalameghan in a complimentary verse on 

 the Alangudi Temple styles Siva Alankudiyan = 



^ ( poison-drinker.'' 



( ?' Gift, hamlet, ' Sans, name Upadanapura. The 

 ' land was a gratuitous endowment for a Siva 

 ( Temple built by a Chola prince. 



j Banyan (tree) village. The alai-maram is the 

 I Ficus Indica or f. Bengalensis. See Alangudi. 



From alam a salt field or marsh, and veli means 

 a wall, hedge, a certain quantity (about 5 acres) 

 of land ; with alam, salt, &c, compare Gr. aks the 

 salt sea, sal = salt, and alum. 



(Vulgar usage for Amarapakam, or more fully 

 Amarapagatteruvu, a small village street, or 

 hamlet near Mannargudi. 



? from ambal = lotus, and pattu (q.v.) a place. 



i goddess-abode'' = Hind. Devighar. 



f a town and railway station 10 miles E. of Tan- 

 [ jore ; said to have been formerly called Ammal- 

 ' patthu = ' Lady-ville^ or Amma-kovil-pattu = 

 ' j Goddess-Churchtown. It is the Ammapatta of 

 | A.S. 79. This pattu being for parru = patt(r)u 

 [jl parish. Pgttai means bazaar, market, &c. 



= ' Weir -bank ;' a common term in the S. dis- 

 tricts for an anaikat (A nglice) anient : anai = an 

 artificial bank, dam, bund ; karai = a (natural) 

 bank, shore. 



5 Perhaps connected with Sanskrit ajira, ager, or even with nagara. — G.CX 



