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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
Beginning of Peaceful Intercourse and Intermar= 
RIAGE BETWEEN ArYANS AND DeAVIDIANS. 
With the decrease of the A.ryan immigration into India, 
their actual conquests ceased and the new comers, once 
established in the country, de-vdsed more peaceful means to 
perpetuate and extend their power. Colonists and mis- 
sionaries visited the hitherto unapproached provinces and 
tried to win by their superior knowledge and civilisation 
the good will of the natives. Intermarriage recommended 
itself as the most efficient means to gain this object, though 
the race-pride of the conquering nation shrank from such 
misalliances. 
In order to sanction them the example of the gods was 
needed, and Subrahmanya, the South-Indian representa- 
tive of Karttikeya, the son of Siva, who delights to reside 
in wild forests and weird mountain tops is credited with 
having chosen a South-Indian girl called Valli as his wife. 
Valli is a well-known female name common among the 
Pariahs and Pallar, the Pallis and other Sudras, and corres- 
ponds to the equally-widely used man's name Malla. Valli 
is also celebrated as the Amman of Vaisnava gods. ^" The 
He is the presiding deity of many mountains, as Tirupparankunran, 
Cdmimalai (or Palani), Colaimalai, &e., and is thus, among other titles, called 
the ruler of the Palani mountain, Palani Andi or Apdavar. 
Two wives are genorall}^ assigned to Suhrahmanra. They are called 
DevasSna (contracted in coUoquial Tamil into Tevanai) and VaUi. (YaUi- 
DsvasenasamOta-SubrahmanyasvaminS namah.) Subrahmanya is therefore 
also called in Tamil ValUman{av)dla» , or hiisband of VaUi. 
" The popular derivation of Triplicane (TiruvallikkSni) is from AUi, 
^eusfH, a kind of water lily ; which explanation I believe to be wrong. 
According to the Sthalapurana of Triplicane Xdrada goes to Kailasa to as- 
certain from Paramesvara the position of Brndavanya which lies north-east 
of Tirunlrmalai near Pallavaram. The s;\ge Bhrgu lived there near a pond 
full of lotus, called Kairavinl. He worshipped the 5 gods of the place, 
especially Eafiganatha, who slept under a sandal tree. Kear it Bhygu found 
a little girl whom ho gave to liis wife to nurse. He called her T'edinalli, 
and married her in due time as Vcda valli Tayar to Rafiganflthasvami, &c. 
The ancient temple tank in Triplicane is called ri'ddvallipuskiti itii. 
