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ON THE NAMES OF 



Pettai — (Continued) . 



Pichanur 9 

 Pidagai .. 



Pidari 



Pillaiyar 



Pinnaiyur 

 Pirambtir 



Pirandai or Pirandai 

 -poli 



Ponvilainda nallur 



Porpadifija nallur 



* Porto Novo ' , . 

 Pottan kadu 



Pottai 



Pondu or Pontu 

 Pudagai 



Pudukkalam 



f Tel. Peram = trade ? Is not the pettai a shop, 

 store, or continual market (in contradistinction to 

 Tarn. Santai a weekly market or fair) , an intro- 

 duction from the North of India ? and has not the 

 ^ word been brought into use by the early Muham- 

 ' madans into S. India ? They are great traders and 

 merchants, pedu is also an affix to village names : 

 but compare pattacheri, pattu, pattinam and patti, 

 [.all common in this part of India. 



f ? from Pichai the watermelon. Pichai means 

 \ also, alms, charity. 



applied to a subordinate village or sub-division. 

 Cf. pudam a side, and puram outside, a suburb, 

 also spelt pudagai. 



!a fierce tutelary goddess or gramadevata whose 

 temples are numerous in Tanj ore villages especially 

 in those occupied by low caste folk. 



f 4 The honourable son'' (of Siva), called in the 

 north G-anesa and G-anapati = ' Lord of hosts,' 

 also Vighnesvara = Lord or Remover of obstacles. 

 , ■{ His temples, or shrines with his image having 

 I an elephant's head and a man's body with a pot 

 I belly are to be seen everywhere. Cf. Lat. filius, 

 ^&c, &c. 



( ? f r. Pinnai, a younger sister ; also a flowering 

 * (tree yielding oil (Calophyllum inophyllum) . 



(Mayaveram Taluk) 4 Rattan-cane town ' Sans, 

 name Vetravanapura. Cf . Hind, bet or bent, a 

 cane. 



a garden of tulsi plants, sacred to Vishnu. 



a boundary ( ? poli a bank in a rice field) Tiru- 

 v-alam-poli == ' sacred banyan boundary.'' 



Gold-producing-Nallur from its fertility (see 

 next) . Ponvilaiija is the vulgar form. 



/ * Porpundaganulloor ' of A. S. 79. ' G-olden-crop- 

 < nallur' from pon (= H. sona) gold and padinju 

 ( — planting. 



Called Muhammad (or Mahmud) Bandar ; but 

 the station is known as Farangi-pettai. 



1 barren jangle ; ' see next. 



Sa barren, and not for pottai, a lump or hummock 

 which is commonly applied to a hillock in Tinne- 

 velly. Pottai an arid tract ; fallow ground ; pottai 

 = blindness. 

 ? a hole. 



( a sub -village or hamlet, a detached street or 

 \ hamlet — Pidagai, q.v. 



1 new threshing floor.'' Pudu or pudiya = new, 

 and kalam = area, arena ; a threshing floor. 



9 Connected perhaps with the word pichan (bhikshuka), a beggar, a 

 common expression in South India. — Gr. 0. 



