PLACES IN TANJORE. 



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Padanilai 

 Padappugudi . . 



Padar-kallu-pottai 



Padavai 



Padugai 



Pagalmedu 



Palagaram ' ? for Palai- 

 yagaram. 



Pallam 



Pallividai 

 Palliyeri 



Pamaniyar 

 Pambanar 



Pambanodai 



Pandanallur 

 Panaiyakkottai 



Panai 

 -pangu 



? Padunilam. — Waste ground, un-irrigated land. 



( from padappai, a stall, yard, garden, enclosure 

 [for agricultural purposes. 



r ' Strewn-stone-barren,' an upland gravelly waste 

 ( in N.E. Trichinopoly. 



for padugai, a low tract or flat by the river side. 



( an outlying hamlet, a cluster of buts at some 

 { distance from tbe village ; arable land near a river. 



/ ' Paugulmoodoo ' of A.S. 79. There is no spe- 

 \ cially high ground (medu) here to account for the 

 j name. Pagal, Jack-fruit tree : also a garden 

 \ creeper. 



f A.S. 79, 7 miles E. of Kumbakonam, no place 

 I of this name heard of now, but might mean ' Old 

 \ Agraharam ' as there is a flourishing village called 

 | Puttagaram (New Agraharam) very near the site 

 ^of the name given. 



f low land ; a hollow, valley, dale or dell (cf . 

 Lat. palus a marsh, pool) : cf. Tarn, pulam and 

 pollai, field, and Can. hola a field, hole a lake or 



^ river, &c, &c, all low places. This is a common 

 affix to place-names in the Delta of the Kaveri, 

 especially near the S.E. Coast and near the river 

 channels, e.g., Kachanpallam. 



( ' Fallans-place' or ' Pallars grant ;' vidai alone, 

 \ means liberty, leave, permission. 



f for Palliyarai which means a bed chamber, this 

 | village having been granted to the great Tan j ore 

 ■{ temple as an endowment to meet the expense 

 | incurred in putting the god and goddess to bed 

 Ldaily. 



{' Pamani-river,' from a place near Mannargudi 

 named after a snake-wearing deity. Pambu a 

 snake, ani wearing. 



f The river foiming the south-eastern limit of 



(Tanjore District. 

 Pambu = snake, ani = wearing. Persons of the 

 , Naga or serpent race are represented as wearing 

 j a snake or many-headed Naga over them hood- 

 ^ fashion. 



Pdmban ( = snake) water-course. Odai a channel, 

 a dry water-couse (from Tarn. Odu = run) S. Coast 

 usage. In Tanjore and northwards, a pool. 



Pall (player's) Nallur. The god and goddess 

 at the temple here are represented as playing at 

 ball ; pandu a ball. Cf. H. pinda a ball, bundle. 



Palmyra-fort ; see next. 



( The palmyra palm. In Tanjore the palmyra 

 ! is rather scarce and inferior. Can the Tamil nam« 

 ( be derived from Sans, pani the hand ? 



a division, share, &c, lot. Chinna Manika- 

 pangu near Tranquebar. 



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