1837.] 



Khoonds of the Goomsoor Mountains. 



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1. Codulu 



2. Pano 



3. Hadi 



4. Chittra 



5. Lohara 



6. Gunn& 



7. The 



castes 



(or tribes) of the Mountaineers. 



7. Gaudd'ha 13. Cheduva 



8. Cumari (potters) 14. Vodia 



9. Sudba 15. B'hadali 



10. Gaudu 16. Beniya 



11. Tomla 17. Vomayatta 



12. C'hadba 18. Sodi. 



These tribes are in the mountains. 



8. The gods honoured by the Codulu people. — I. Dherma devata^ 

 2. Savuri-pennuga, a forest-goddess. 3. Jacari-pennuga, a local god- 

 dess. 4. Jarapennu, so called a Linga devata, which is their favorite 

 deity. 5. Jurachi-pennuga, the god or goddess of rain. 6. Tada-pen- 

 nuga, the earth-goddess. 



9. The manner of worshipping these deities : 1. If occasion arise to 

 present any offering to Dherma-devata, they take inferior rice and 

 mingling turmeric with it, they hold it up, and worship. 



2. To Savuri-pennuga, the so-called forest deitj^, when the corn 

 flourishes, they bring liquor, fowls, rice, and roasting the fowl, they 

 cause worship {puja) to be made by the J ahi } and preparing baji 

 they eat. 



3. To represent J acari-pennuga, the local deitj', they fix three or 

 four stones, and near to these (representatives) they place dressed dolls, 

 artificial figures of birds on sticks. On the beginning of any thing, or 

 affair, or any particular occasion, they call for the Jani and slaying 

 fowls and hogs, they bring liquor and making baji, eat. 



4. To represent Jara-pennu, the Linga-daveta or the Petri-devata t 

 they make, in brass, figures of elephants, peacocks, dolls, fishes, these 

 and-the like, and keep them in their houses. If affliction happen to 

 any one belonging to the household, or if the country cutaneous erup- 

 tions break out on any of them, or if the anniversary of an ancestor's 

 death occur, they put rice into milk, and mingling turmeric with it, 

 they sprinkle the mixture on those images, and killing fowls and 

 sheep, they cause worship to be made by the Jani ; and, making baji, 



5. For Jurachi-pennu the rain-deity, if there be no rain, they kill a 

 sheep beneath a tree, and causing worship {puja) to be made by the 

 Jani, they cook half the flesh for the Jani, and cause him to eat, and 

 the other half they divide among themselves. 



6. To Tadd, the B'hu-devata, or deity of the earth, they make the 

 wema-sacrifice, or offering. This puja having been finished, they give 

 from one to three pecks (iumu or monacal) of grain, rice, a fowl, a 

 sheep, (or fowls and she"ep) to the Jani (or sacrificer). 



eat. 



