PLACES IN TANJOKE. 



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Kuditaiigi 



-kuli and -kuri 

 Kulichapattu 



Kumbhakonam 8 



Kumbhesvaran 



Kumulankadu 

 Kunavasal 



Kundur 



Kufijuveli 

 Kunnam 



Kuppai 



A village on the edge of the Kolladam river 

 bank ; ' Koduthany ' of A.S. 79 ; the field nearest 

 to the supply channel is called Kudithaiigi. 



A pit, hole, hollow, dell. Torakkuli = Herd- 

 hollow ; Kuppankuli = Cottage dell. 



f Former capital of Tan j ore and seat of a Chola 

 dynasty, but now of brahman wealth and culture . 

 The derivation commonly given is Sans, kum- 

 bha = a water pot, and kona = corner, edge ; trim ; 

 with kumbha compare Gr. KvfiPrf a hollow, Lat. 

 j cymba a vessel, Eng. coomb, fr. Sax. cumb, a 

 vessel to measure with ; may not this name have 

 some connection with the legend that Kaveri 

 I originated in the upsetting of the Eishi Agastya 

 I Muni's waterpot by a crow, and its water flowing 

 J thus far : Kumbakonam having been built near 

 ^the extremity of the Kaveri floods ? 



' Lord of the water pot '= Kumbha-isvara ; deity 

 of the Saiva temple at Kumbhakonam. 



(the ' Clamungcaadu '^of A.S. 79) ? Kaliman- 



Aladi-kumulai was met to 



Kuppankuli 



| kadu = 1 Clay jungle. 

 ( the southward. 



See Annavasal and Kodai vasal. 



( Kundu a (cannon) ball. A shot fired from the 

 great gun on the E. or N.E. ramparts of Tanjore is 

 said to have reached this village 4 miles off, and 

 a masonry mark is still shown, and said to 

 denote the spot. Cf. the Gundu Gramam, " can- 



(^non ball villages " at Cuddalore. 



J A new name for Nagappa Nallur in N.E. Tri- 



|chinopoly. See Veli. 



i ? perhaps for kundram, a hillock, &c, common 

 ( in S. and N. Arcot Districts. 



f a hamlet or suburb, of poor people or low-caste 

 folk, sach as fishermen, &c, made of thatched huts 

 or ' peaked ' cabins. The root meaning seems to be, 

 heap, group, collection, pile, &c, generally of refuse. 

 This name is hardly to be found south of the 

 Kolladam and Kaveri. Its home is the valley of 

 the S. Pennar, and between the Palar and 

 ( Vellar rivers in S. Arcot, but it extends on 

 the coast between Pulicat and Point Calimere, 

 and inland from Cuddalore as far as the E. Ghats, 

 The group of pointed roofs is the chief feature : 

 Cf. koppu and Gopuram, a pointed roof, spire. 

 Kan. kop, koppalu, a suburb, a cluster of pointed 

 thatched huts ; Tarn, kuppai and kuppai a heap, 

 collection, stack, dunghill, &c, &c. The rootkao, 

 kap, kop, kup, &c, is found with allied meaning 

 in many languages. 

 Cottage dell. 



8 The right form is KumbhaghOna, its ancient traditions are contained 

 in the Kumbhaghonamahatmya. — G.O. 



