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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
called Kurumbar, and, as we shall see hereafter, they are 
divided into Anda or Andai- Kurumbar, Kambali-Kurumbar , 
Ktirmnba-Idaiyar, Cunndmbu-Kurumbar, 8fc. The ethnological 
origin of Kuruba, shepherd, is proved by the occurrence of 
such terms as Kuri-Kuruba, Sheep- Kuruba, Handi-Kmyba, 
Pig-Kuruba. The Kurubas or Kurumbas embraced the 
occupation of herdsmen to such an extent, that the tribal 
designation became in course of time a professional one. In 
English the term ahepherd is on the other hand used in such 
a general sense, that the original meaning of shepherd^ as 
a herd of sheep, the German Schafhirt, is quite forgotten. 
The expression Kuri-Kuruba would mean sheep-shepherd, if 
the original signification of Kuruba were really shepherd. 
Now it happens that one of the principal occupations of 
the Kurubas or Kurumbas is that of tending sheep, and by a 
peculiar coincidence hiri or kori is a common Gauda-Dravi- 
dian term for sheep, from which can also be derived the word 
Kuruban, in the sense of shepherd. In fact the term kuruba 
in Kanarese, kuruban in Malay alam and Tulu, and goUadu 
or goUamda in Telugu denote a shepherd, but the Tamil 
kuruniban in the sense of shepherd refers only to the 
Kurumba shepherd, and the sheep peculiar to the Kurumbas 
is called KuriimMdu, in Tamil ©juiiun-®. So fai- as the 
Telugu (jolladii is concerned, I must at once remark tliat I 
think it incorrect to connect this word with the Sanskrit term 
(JO, cow. Golladu or GoUavadu is derived from goHa the 
Casus Constructus (fatanin) iu the plural of gorre, sheep, 
plural gorrela or gor/a changed into go/Iu. I have been since 
informed by reliable authority that in the Telugu-speakiug 
districts the term goUavddu is particularly applied to herds- 
men of sheep or shepherds. The Kui-umba herdsmen are 
styled in Tamil ICuru»/ba Idaigur, and iu Telugu Kuru»ibit 
Gollalu.'''^ 
Compare Mr. Grigg's Manual of thf N'Haffiri District, p. 208, Kov. G. 
RicMor's E//iiinprapliical Compendium, p. 11 (see note 108 on p. 206), and Mr. 
Lewis Rice's Mi/sorc mid Coorg, vol. Ill, pp. 20, 49, o7, 207, 20S. 214, 216. 
