40 On the Language, Manners, and Rites, of the [July 



assembled the Petrilu (literally ancestors, but here denoting household 

 images, or gods) they put rice on the sickle. As the names (of the 

 ancestors ? or family ?) are repeated in order, each time the rice is put 

 on, that name is chosen on the mention of which the sickle moves, and 

 is given to the child. They then drink liquors, and eat bdji. They 

 give rice and flesh to the Jdni. 



When two years are elapsed, they cut off the child's hair, and on that 

 occasion, killing some animal, and procuring liquor, they make bdji, 



3. IVie ceremonies customary at funerals.— On the life ceasing, 

 they tie a sheep to the foot of the corpse. They carry the clothes, 

 brass eating-dish, brass drinking-vessel, ornaments, grain in store, 

 and the said sheep, all together to the burning-ground. Having 

 burned the body, and gone round about the pile, they leave all 

 those things there, and beating drums, return home. Those garments 

 the Pthio* take away. They procure liquor, and drink it. They then 

 go to their respective houses and eat. On the next day, they kill a 

 she-buffalo, and get together a great quantity of liquor. The whole of 

 the tribe (near and distant relations) being assembled, they make baji, 

 and eat : they beat the drum (or drums). If the deceased were of any 

 consequence, dancers come, and dance to the sound of their drums ; to 

 whom some animal is given, which they take and go away. Subse- 

 quently on the twelfth-day, they carry a hog to the spot where the body 

 was burned ; and after perambulating the site of the pyre, return to 

 their home ; where they kill the hog in the place set apart for their 

 household gods ; and procuring liquor, they make bdji; the members of 

 the tribe eating together. 



4. Case of death by a tiger. — Should a tiger carry off any one, 

 they throw out of doors all the (preserved) flesh belonging to 

 him, and all the people of the village, not excepting children, quit 

 their homes. The Jdni being come, with two rods of the tummeca 

 tree {Tamil — Vela mar am) he plants these in the earth; and 

 then bringing one rod of the Conda-tdmara tree, he places it trans- 

 versely across the other two. The Jdni, performing some incantation, 

 sprinkles water on them. Beginning with the children, as these and 

 the people pass through the passage so formed, the Jdni sprinkles 

 water on them all. Afterwards the whole of them go to their houses, 

 without looking behind them. 



5. {Degraded occupations). — The Mangili (barber) Pdnb, Hadi, 

 Danddsi, these castes, being excepted, the Codulu people eat with all 

 the other tribes. 



6. ( Treatment of Brahmans). — The Codulu people do not pardon the 

 Brahmans (or show them favour beyond others). 



* Weavers. — Dr. Maxwell's vocabulary. 



