Buchanan, Francis: A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar ... (Band 3) (London, 1807)

GENERAL INDEX.

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Population of certain places and districts* i. 76.
ii. 361, 441, 485, 500, 508, 527, 543, 562.

iii. 2, 5, 195, 246, 414,& c.
foray, a dry measure, ii. 354, 395, 477-
---------candum, a land measure, ii. 355, 363,

395, 478.
Porters, i. 2.
Porto-novo Pagoda, a gold coin, ii. 210, 353,

iii. 25.
Portuguese of Malabar, ii. 517- iii. 105.
Post, an intoxicating liquor of the Mussulmans

and Hindus, iii. 444.
Potail, a name for the chief officer of a village

or manor. See Gauda, Gaunda.
Potatoe, sweet. See Convolvulus.
Polla, a kind of land in Canara. See Low-land,

iii. 45, 84.
Pot-stone, a kind of stone, ii. 57,62,138,142,

145,146, 244. iii. 389, 391.
Potty, a chief among the Namburi Brdhmans.

See Br&hmans.
Poultry, i. 315. ii. 383.
Price current of goods at different places, i.

195, 219. ii. 477. iii- 437.
Priests. See Bombolu, Br&hman, Jangama,

Gauda, Village gods, Christians, Pujari,

Satanana, Jambu, Purohita.
Printing of cotton cloth, i. 222.
Pritapa rudrun, iii. 476.
Priyapatana, a town of Mysore, ii. 92, 95.
Prophecy among the Hindus, iii. 91, 469.
Prostitutes, ii. 267. iii. 65, 95.
Pucka seer, a dry measure. See Seer.
Puckally, a machine for raising water. See

Capily.
Pudameni, a gold coin. See Vir' Rdya Fanam.
Puddial, or Pudiul,m Coimbetore, a hired farm

servant. See Servants, and Wages.
Puddy, a dry measure, i. 363, 413. ii. 209,

252,279, 311, 321, 354, 481.
Puja, worship of the Hindus i. 325. ii. 271.
Pujari, the priest who offers worship, i. 242.
Pull, a weight. See Weights, ii. 279-
Pulla, a temple in Canara, iii. 15.
Pulses, or leguminous plants, the seed of which

is fit for eating. See Arachis, Cicer, Cytisus,

Dolichos, Phascolus, Trigonella.
Pumpkin, ii. 177-

Punapuram, a village of Coimbitore, ii. 316.
Pundarum, a sect of Hindus, who officiate in

temples of Siva, ii. 74, 330.
Pungal, in Coimbetore, a kind of servants. See

Servants.

Punji, in Coimbetore, arable lands that cannot
be inundated. See Dry-jield.

Puranas, books held sacred by the Hindus, and
supposed to have been written by Vayasa,
ii. 74. iii. 76, 91, 46'9.

PurneaDewan, or minister of the Mysore Raja,
i. 6'0. ii. 88, 91, 135, 143.

Purohita, among the Hindus, a kind of priest
who reads prayers at births, marriages,
funerals, and other solemn occasions. See
Panchanga, i. 235, 322. ii. 144, 243, 303,
410. iii. 94.

Putalima, one of the deities called SaJctis, i.
262.

Putcury, a kind of pulse. See Dolichos Lab-
lab.

Puttuegars, silk weavers, i. 208.

Pu or Puli Varahun, a gold coin. See Star
Pagoda.

Pychi Rdjd, a chief of Malabar. See Cotay-
huttay.

Pyr'arumba, in Mysore, arable land that cannot
be inundated. See Dry-jield.

Pysachi, a kind of devils. See Paudchi.

Pyurmalay, a district of Malabar, ii. 499.

Quarries. See Granite, Hornblend, Pot-stone,
i. 132, 182. ii.4, 60, 6l, 78, 85, 118, 140,
143,145, 146", 149, 167, 299. iii. 133.-

Rachewar, or Rdjdwar, iii. 435.

Ragy, a kind of corn. See Cynosurus.

Rdjds of Chatrakal. See iii. 345.

-------, Ikeri, iii. 125.

-------, Malayala, numerous petty chiefs. See

Cadutanada, Chericul lands, Cochi, Colata-
nada, Nileswara, Parupanada, Shekhury,
Tamuri, Travancore, Vellater, ii. 349, 368,
395, 413, 424, 432, 435, 468, 470, 483,
499, 510, 548, 556.

Rdjds of Mysore, or princes of that country, i.
67, 147,361,362. ii. 3, 65, 73, 94, 130,
137, 143, 165, 172, 193, 235, 237, 245,
250, 302. iii. 408, 417, 426,434.

-------, of Sudka-pura, iii. 213.

Rdjds of Tulava, iii. 15,18, 19, 63, 68, 74,
75,81,98,109, 125, 127,476.

Raiasa, a letter writer, ii. 215.

Rajput, the pure Sudras of a country in the
north of India, i. 303.

Rain. See Weather.

Rake drawn by oxen. See Harrow, iii. 144,
236.

Raksha, a devil, iii. 78.

Rali, a kind of corn. See Cynosurus*

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