OF BHAEATAVAR8A OR INDIA. 
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The same incident is mentioned in the following manner 
in the MS. of the yet unprinted " Greography and History of 
Canara " compiled by the late Mr. William Lavie, an official 
of South Kanara, during the years 1830 to 1841 : " About 
" 900 years or more before Christ (but we must not be too 
*' particular about dates) Hoobashee brought an army from 
" Anantapur consisting of the Berar, Mundale, Karamara, 
" Mailla, Holeya, Ande Koraga ; with these troops, whom 
" Buchanan calls savages, Hoobashee marched against 
" Angara Varma, the son of Veera Varma. They first came 
*' to Barkur and from thence proceeded to Mangalore, where 
" they were seized with the small-pox, and greatly troubled 
" by the ants. Subsequently they went to the south- 
" ward of Manjeshwar. Here Hoobashee established his 
" capital, and put his nephew Siddha Bhyru on the throne 
" in lieu of Veera Varma. He reigned only twelve years, 
" and then both he and Hoobashee died, owing to the en- 
" chantments used by Veera Varma who went to Banwasee 
*' in Sonda for that very purpose. After their deaths, Veera 
" Varma returned and drove the aforesaid army into the 
behind. Some of the men have a fragment of cloth round their waist ; but 
very few of the women ever procure this covering. They are not, however, 
without many ornaments of beads, and the like ; and even when possessed 
of some wealth, do not alter their rude dress. Some few of them are permit- 
ted to rent lands as Gai/iiigaras. In spite of this wretched life, they are a 
good looking people, and therefore probably are abundantly fed. They have 
no hereditary chiefs, and disputes among them are settled by assemblies of the 
people. If they can get them, they take several wives ; and the women are 
marriageable both before and after puberty, and during widowhood. They 
will not marry a woman of any other caste ; and they are considered of so 
basa an origin, that a man of any other caste, who cohabits with one of their 
women, is inevitably excommunicated and afterwards not even a Corar will 
admit his society. The marriages are indissoluble, and a woman who com- 
mits adultery is only flogged. Her paramour, if he be a Corar, is fined. The 
master pays the expense of the marriage feast. When a man dies, his wives, 
with all their children, return to the huts of their respective mothers 
and brothers, and belong to their masters. They will eat the oiials of any 
other caste, and can eat beef, can-ion, tigers, crows, and other impure 
things; they reject, however, dogs and snakes. They can lawfully drink 
intoxicating liquors. They bum the dead, and seem to know nothing of 
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