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ON THE NAMES OF 



Ayingudi 

 Ayya-v&di . . 



-bakam or-bakkam 



Aiyangar's (Ayengar'' s) abode. Vaishnava Brah~ 

 mans are called Ayyangar (prop. Aiyangar), 

 whereas Saiva Brahmans are called Ayyar (prop. 

 Aiyar). Aiyan = Father, elder, preceptor, &c. 



Pastor's enclosure, or garden, 

 man, Cow-keeper, ? from a a cow. 



Ayan a herds- 



f (in combination) for pakkam (cf. pakkam, a 

 ', side = Sax. ' bord' Eng. (sea) board ; a common 

 J affix to places in the seaboard districts near to, and 

 ' * j south of, Madras. Cf. S. bhftga a share, lot, 

 I division, also H. bagam a cultivated place (? Per. 

 I^bagh). See Pakkam. 



Bovanagiri (Bhuvana- 

 giri.) 



Budalur or more cor 

 rectly Pusalur. 



"Calimere" .. 

 " Carical" .. 



Chadaiyappar . . 



Chelambaram or 

 Chellumbrum. 



name of a town on the Vellar river, near Chid- 

 . ambaram. 



f There are several places of this name in Tan j ore 

 and mother parts of S. India; ? = ' Worship 

 town,'' from pusal adorning an idol in worship ; 

 J piisi to offer (pu) flowers ;puchu Tarn. = anointing 



] cf. Hind, ptija = worship (Tarn, pusal = battle). 

 Pudanur is common and seems to be another form 



'i of this name. The Tarn, pusu means daub, smear, 



(^anoint, adorn. 



See Kallimedu. 

 f properly Karaikkal, the French Coast Town 

 j between Tranquebar and Negapatam. There are 

 \ several places with the prefix Karai on the S. 



India coasts ; Karaikottai, Karai -kurichi : Karai- 



Chengad(u) 

 Chehgattankudi 



Cheri 



Chidambaram . . 



| kal might mean ' Masonry (chunam) channel.' 

 One of the Chola princes was named Karikala. 



( Shaggy lord, Lord matted-locks ; an epithet of 

 ( Siva. 



Anglo-Indian usage^ for Chidambaram, q.v. 



Natives also miscall it Sittambalam. 



i 1 Red wold,' 'Bloody field,' a common name 

 \ in the Tamil country ; applied to a place sacred 

 j to Siva: fromse, sen, red, and kadu forest, grove, 

 ' &c. This god loves the color red (? Sanguis). 



C The Short/ of A.S. 79 which also has another, 

 } Shorey ; cheri ( 6 ) means a village, street, hamlet, 

 (. &c, from a root meaning collection, assemblage, &c. 



f The town between the Vellar and Kolladam 



(Coleroon) rivers, with the famous ancient temple of 



Siva, commonly called by the English ' Chellum. 



brum fr. chit = wisdom, and ambara horizon, sky ; 



== Heaven of wisdom. Tillai, or Tillaivanam is 

 { the former name of this place, and it is familiarly 



known as Tillai even now amongst the natives. 



? May not this be the ancient Thellyx and ? 



de\x*' L P °f Ptolemy and the ancient geographers. 



But perhaps Tellur (near Vandavasi) may be 

 Lit. 



e Cheri — K6ri ; perhaps Sanskrit Kshetra or Khefyi. — G.O. 



