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CHAPTER 
July 12. 
Morasu 
Whullias. 
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
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who has been similarly defiled, is obliged to wash his head. A 
Brahman of this country will not give any thing out of his hand to 
persons of lower birth, of whom he is not afraid ; but throws it 
down on the ground for them to take up. He will receive any- 
thing from the hand of a person of a pure descent; but when a 
Whallia delivers any thing to the Brahman, he must lay it on the 
ground, and retire to a proper distance, before the Brahman will 
deign to approach. Europeans, from their eating beef, are looked 
upon by the natives here as a kind of Whalliaru ; and nothing but 
the fear„of correction prevents them from being treated with the 
same insolence. 
The proper business of the division of Whalliaru, called Morasu , 
is the cultivation of the ground, in which both men and women are 
very industrious ; but they do not appear to have ever formed a 
part of the native militia, like the Sudra cultivators, nor to have 
been entrusted with arms, until they began to enter into the Com- 
pany’s service. From among them several families hold, by here- 
ditary right, the low village offices of Toti and Nirgunty, or of 
watchmen and conductors of water. Some few of the cultivators 
are farmers ; but by fir the greater part are yearly servants or 
Batigaru. Some of them weave coarse cloth, and some smelt iron 
ore. They have chiefs called Gotugaru, who, with a council as 
usual, settle all disputes and matters of cast. 
The Guru of the Whallias is called Kempa Nullari Einaru, and 
lives at Tripathi. He is married, and wears the mark of Vishnu, 
They do not know of what cast he is ; but he does not intermarry 
with the Whalliaru ; and my interpreter says, that the Gurus of 
this low tribe are all of the people called here Satdnana, The Guru 
occasionally comes round, lives in the huts of his followers, and 
receives their contributions. He puts the mark of Vishnu on their 
foreheads, and exhorts them to pray to that god, and to those of 
his family. They have no priest that attends at births, marriages, 
burials, nor at the ceremonies performed in honour of their deceased 
