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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
Tlie few necessaries which in India suffice to sustain life, 
the simplicity of manners, and similarity of external wants 
create a great uniformity in the habits and mode of living 
among the population. In this respect there is less dilTer- 
ence, perhaps, between the rich and the poor in India than 
elscAvhere. The dwelling places are pretty much the same in 
villages as in towns, and architectural ambition displays itself 
mostly in the erection of the temples devoted to the gods, 
or the palaces occupied by the kings. Difference in population 
— irrespective of caste, religion, and occupation — fonns, 
therefore, in India the most striking distinction bet-\\een 
village and town. In these cii'cumstances even speech does 
not, as a rule, distinguish between them, and in the Dravidian 
languages the same expressions ^Jf///? (pa/li, holli, ^'C.) and 
uv {iiru, &c.) are applied both to village and town. 
Different meanings of the word Palli, 
The word Palli has also various other meanings. In 
towns, and even in small villages, where people congregate in 
greater numbers, such buildings and institutions as temples 
and schools are more easily and more apjDropriately founded 
than in a lonely and sparsely populated country. These 
establishments ai'e accordingly called after the place in which 
they are erected. The Buddhist and Jain missionaries were 
probably the first preachers and religious teachers who 
devoted themselves to the indigenous population and who 
succeeded in their efforts to win by their s}-mpathy the affec- 
tion of the masses. This may be the reason why a temple, 
more particularly if Buddhistic and Jaina, is caUed paUi. 
Everything connected with roj'alty has the term paUi 
prefixed to it iu Malayalam as palUkGrilalxam, a royal palace, 
pullbndta, a royal bed, paUiml, a royal sword, paUketUx, 
a royal chase, &c.^* This expression is very peculiar indeed. 
^'^ In Tamil the word palU is at times also used iu tlie sense of royal, 
tbus pMjyava'i, like the Malaydlum palli^ara, denotesthe royal hed-chRmhtr. 
