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Kadu — [Continued). 



Kaduvettan kurichi 



Kalancheri 



Kalanjimed 

 Kallankarai 



Kalapalagaram 

 Kalapalis varan . . 



Kallanpundi 



Kallimed 



Kambaiyanattam 

 Kanda or kandan 



vation compare ka a grove, as in Punka = Flower 

 garden, Tiruvanaika = saint elephant grove, at 

 Trichinopoly ; anc. Tam. and anc. Mai. kanam = 

 forest, jungle ; Kodi-kanal = creeper- wood (Pala- 

 nihills) ; ka also means a pole, beam, whence 

 kavadi a shoulder pole, for carriers, (kahdr). In 

 Kan. fW. Mysore) kan = a wood, evergreen forest, 

 and on Malabar coast kavu or kau = a garden, 

 sacred enclosure or grove : perhaps from Rt. ka = 

 guard, whence kaval = watch, ward (Lat. caveo). 

 Kadu is applied to a scattered collection of 

 things ; as, kudikkadu (grove of huts) a hamlet ; 

 neruppukkadu a conflagration (a forest of flame) ; 

 Vellakkadu a general flood. 



( = (' Forest -cleared hamlet '). Vettu = cut, dig, 

 > strike, &c. See Kurichi. Kaduvetti was a title 

 ( of one of the Chola princes. 



f ' Threshing-floor-village.' Kalam means a 

 | threshing floor, also a battle field. In the Kaveri 

 ^ delta the threshing floor is the only dry spot to 

 | be found in the irrigated parts very often, and is 

 (^usually the best site for a new hamlet. 



( For Kalahji-medu = Mushroom. (or fungus — ) 

 \ mound. 



* Stony bank.' The name of an old gravel 

 bund or dyke some miles in length north of the 

 Kolladam. 



( 1 Cullapaulgurram ' of A.S. 79, near Kumbha- 

 < konam. Cf . * Gullapaul ' near Tirutarapundi ; 

 [see next. 



{' Kalaplisperi ' of A.S. 79 (see preceding). The 

 idol is said to be allotted a kalam measure of 

 milk (pal) daily. 



f ' Kalian's Grove.' The Kalians were a lawless 

 | tribe of borderers between the Trichinopoly, 

 <^ Madura, and Tanjore Districts. Kalian is synony- 

 | mous with thief in Tamil (S. chala = fraud. Lat. 

 I^clepo, kXstttsiv.) 



f (Point ' Callimere ') = Cactus (Euphorbia) 



' mound ; but none there now. It is commonly called 

 (locally) KOdikarai= ' Point Shore.'' It is supposed 

 to be the ' ' Kalligicum ' ' Promontory of ancient 

 geographers. Pliny gives Calingon. It is some- 



<{ times written and pronounced Kallimod(u) (angl. 

 Kallimor, as in Nagari-mor the Nagari Nose, or 

 hill peak, near Madras). Rama is said to have 

 attempted to make a causeway hence into Lahka 

 (Ceylon), and the Eamasami-padam-mandapam 



'^is said still to mark his footsteps (padam). 



( Kambaiyan is one of the many titles amongst 



t the Kallars ; nattam = a settlement, village, or 



I plantation, from nadu == plant, set. 



j in combination in placenames means ' saw/ 



\ ' met with. ' See Kondan. 



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