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ON THE NAMES OF 



Kurichimalai 



Kuttalam . . , 



Lalpettai 



Mailam 



Malai 



Malaiyanattam 

 Manakkollai . . 



Manakkundu . . 

 Manalmedu . . . . 

 Manikam kollai . . 



Mannargudi . . 



Mannanpunjaitoppu . . 

 Manmalai 



Mappillai Nayyakkan- 

 patti. 



Mappillai kuppam 



r kurichi means a little village or hamlet, usually 

 in a wild place ; kun(d)rachi has "been suggested 

 as a fuller form of the word, as if from kun(d)ru 



<^ a hill; but compare kuru = short, Fr. court, 

 Lat. curtus, Per. and Hind. Khurd. Sans, kshudra, 

 low, mean; Gr. nvpr6s ; also kurai = a pointed 



l^roof . See Kuppam and Kuchur. 



f There are several places of this name in E. 

 } Tan j ore (' Cutaulum ' and ' Kourtallam' of 

 ! A.S. 79) and the well known ' Court allam, ' in 

 j Tinnevelly ; other instances of names common to 

 j Tan j ore and Tinnevelly are Papanasam, Tehkasi, 

 L&c. 



a decayed town named after Lai- Khan of Palai- 

 yam-kottai between the Trichinopoly and South 

 Arcot Districts. 



f Near Tindivanam, South Arcot, for Mayilam 

 which is said to be a corruption of Mayurastalam 



I Peacq.ck's place. See Mayavaram. 



<^ A Saiva temple on a low hill near the Mailam 

 (" Mylam") railway station, South Indian 

 Railway, said to have been built by Jaiyamba, or 



^ Jayambaga Maharajah, from the north. 



f A hill or mountain ; although Tanjore is quite 

 I flat, except for the river channels and a few low 

 <^ sand mounds, yet many places have this affix, e.g. t 

 | Swami-malai, which Dr. Burnell is inclined to 

 identify as the Malakuta of Houen Tsang. 



' Manal = sand : a common prefix. 



1 Sand hilV See Man-malai below, and Malai 

 above. 



' Sand mound.' 

 Manikam' s field. 



Prince's abode, from mannan or manavan, a 

 king, prince ; (Mannar also means enemies, foes). 

 There are several places of this name. 



( Commonly called ' Mannaminjai t6p mannan, 

 \ a king, prince, and punchey dry (inferior) land. 



( (See Manakkundu) earth hill, or sand hill : man 

 ( = earth, manal — sand. 



• ( There are no people called Mappillai (Angl. 

 ( Moplah) in Tanjore ; mappillai means son-in-law. 



f (In the Nannilam Taluk), there is a legend 

 I at Tiruchengattankudi ('' Saint-Red-wold' 's 

 [ dwelling") , that Siva visited a Saiva devotee in the 

 guise of a hungry ascetic, and refused to eat any 

 I food except the flesh of his only son, who was 

 <{ accordingly killed and offered. An annual 

 commemoration is still held, when a child made 

 up of flour (ma) is sacrificed and offered to Siva. 

 The cost of this festival is defrayed from time 

 immemorial by the villagers of Ma(p)pillai 

 ^kuppam ; pillai = a child, and kuppam a hamlet. 



