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events to Kancipuram, and declare that, when the two 
opposed parties brought their complaints before the Pallava 
king reigning over the Cola country, the Kammalar, Beri 
Cetties and their friends were sitting on the left hand of the 
king and the Vellalar and their adherents on the right hand. 
The left-hand side is regarded by the Kammalar as the place 
of honor. 
is given on page 29 of the circumstances in which Vyasa lost his hand. Hia 
opponent is in this Cittiir Decision described as fc{j35jo?.\S.>^ Cfe^ifo. 
Vlramtiati means a Vira Saiva or JaAgama, who precedes a procession, holding 
a shield and brandishing a sword. He is also called Vrsabhgsvara. The 
Skandapurana contains also the story about the cutting off of Vyasa' s arm. 
Captain J. S. T. Mackenzie connects the Tyasanu-tdlu Kallu (Vyasana'a 
armstone) found in Mysore with this event. Compare Indian Antiquary, 
vol. II, (1873), p. 49. 
As the Paficalar claim the privilege of being their own priests and the 
Brahmans oppose this claim, many disputes and even serious disturbances 
of the public peace have ensued. Such was the case, e.g., at Cittur in 1817. 
Through the kindness of the present Judge at Cittur, Mr. Crole, I have 
obtained a copy of the j udgment from which I give the following extracts : 
After mentioning the names of the plaintiffs and the six defendants it 
begins : "1. This suit was brought against the defendants by the plaintiffs 
to recover Rs. 530|- damages on account of the defendants having prevented 
the plaintiffs from celebrating a marriage in their family. 
"The record consists of the plaint, three answers, one reply and two 
rejoinders ... 2. The plaintiffs in this suit call themselves Kammalars, the 
descendants of five Brahmas. The Kammalars follow five crafts, namely, 
that of carpenter, blacksmith, goldsmith, mason and brass-smith. 3. The 
plaintiffs state that they and their tribe have been accustomed, and that they 
consider themselves entitled, and have resolved, to conduct their own mar- 
riages, and other domestic and religious ceremonies without the interference 
of the Brahmins, to which tribe the defendants belong. The plaintiffs 
maintain that one of their own tribe is their Guru, and performs their reli- 
gious rites, and that they will not attend to, nor employ a Brahmin therein, 
and they state their confidence that no Court of Justice can give the defend- 
ants or Brahmins liberty to enter their houses b^^ force to officiate at their 
ceremonies, moreover, they stat that they are neither of theVais3'a nor Sudra 
tribes, but are descendants of Brahma and that therefore they do not require 
Brahmins to officiate for them. That moreover they, the plaintiffs are 
Deva, or divine Brahmins, and that the defendants are Go or cow Brahmins 
who were originally Sudras, and by certain penance and ceremonies obtained 
Brahminism, and that they, the plaintiffs, can prove their right from the 
Veda, Smriti and Vasishthapuranum and the Silpa Sastram. 4. The principal 
defendants, namely, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and ■5th maintain that they are 
Brahmins of the Siva Bhakti and have a right to perform the ceremonies 
