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value for the interpretation of the legend on the is sufficient evidence to prove that the Morasu coins found by Mr. Carlleyle, and whether the Holiyars are affiliated to the Morasu Wak. ancient city of Nagari may originally have been ligas. called Madhyamika. To me it would seem that Why this took place I have been unable to the Majhamikaya of the coins might well be the discover, but a more than ordinarily intelligent oblique case of a feminine noun in d, equivalent to head-man said that he thought the Holiya rs had a Sanskrit form मध्यमिकाया:
been adopted because they assisted tho Wakli. Later writers have freely copied Katyayana's
gas when they first came to the country. Vårttika on P. III. 2. 111, and in some cases also
The Morasu Holiyars are the only HoliPatanjali's instances. The author of the Praadda yars who weave cloth. (a commentary on the Prakriyd-kauneudt) quotes What is the meaning of Morasu? I think it TETT: HTKK; the same instance we find in the
must have been the old name of that part of the Jainendra-mahduritti of Abhayanandin, who in
country where the Morasu Wak ligas are to
be found. stances besides अरुणन्महेन्द्रो मधुराम; and in the Bab
Among the W akligas of Maisar the followddrnava-chandrika, another commentary on the
ing appellatives are to be found :-Morasu, Hali Jainendra-dydkarana, we read 37 . H.
Gang adik ar, and Nona ba, and the same But the most interesting instances are no doubt
appellativos are to be found among tho Holi those which Hemachandra in his Sanskrit gram
yars. Now the Gang â dikar and Nona ba mar gives for his rule a T4, viz. -
Wakligas evidently derived their respective TETHET SET (sic), and Trac: HTET. appellative from the old name of that part of the According to the late Dr. Bhâu Daji, Hema- country where to this day they are to be found in chandra lived 1088-1172 A.D., and Siddharaja l the largest numbers. Thi
the largest numbers. The Ganga dikar Wak reigned some time during the first half of the 12th ligas are chiefly in the south and west of the century (Lassen, vol. III. p. 567).
Maisur district, and this part of the country was F. KIELHORN. formally called Gangavadi. In the same way
the Nonaba Wakligas are found in the west
of the Tumkur district, which part of the country ALLE MAKKALU.
was formerly known as Nonambavat. Rea. From inquiries lately made I find that the Mo- soning by analogy, the ancient namo of those parts rasu Holiyars are the Halle Mekkalu- of the country where there is an appellative old (adopted) sons--of the Morasu Wakligas. common to both Wakligas and Holiyars ought to
"In former times" the Morasu Holiyars be the appellative. The Morasu Wakliga sare bad the following privileges :
to be found principally in the Bangalor district, (i.) Carrying the Wakliga bride's box in which the Hale Wakligas in the Hassan district. her trousseau was placed ;
Perhaps some of the readers of the Antiquary (ii.) Washing the feet of the Wakliga bride and
in those districts could help in clearing up this bridegroom;
point. (iii.) Assisting to carry to its grave the body I can add little or nothing about the Kongaru of a deceased Wakliga;
Holiyars. The term Kongaru is appliod (iv.) Partaking of the pinda, i.e. the food pre- by the Kanarese-speaking people to the Tamil. pared on the third day after death, and of which, as speaking camp followers of regimonts. I saw an a rule, only members of the family can partake. old man the other day at Tyamgondla, Nelamangla
or these four privileges the first is now the only Taluka, who said he was a Kongíra Holiya; one universally admitted and exercised. Individual he came up to this part of the country with the Wakligas deny that the Holiyars exercised all commissariat elephants. He eats with the Holithese privileges, but a very little cross-examina- yars of this country, but he told me that tion soon brings out that the denial is confined to among the Holiyars of Madras there is a subthe privileges being exercised with regard to the division who correspond to Halle Makkalu. individual and his own relations; that he is aware They are called Puli Kutti pariah s of the the Holiyars are said to have had these pri- Vollalas. He would not eat at the houses of any of vileges in former times, and believes that here and this sub-division, but they would in his. Soine there even now they occasionally exercise them. of your Madras readers ought to be able to say This is only what is to be expected. Each indivi- if the old man is right or not. dual tries to make the most of his own family, and
J. S. F. MACKENZIE. denies any relationship with a lower caste. There Bangalore, 9th May 1878.
Conf. Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 39; vol. II. pp. 29, 50, 170; vol. III, pp. 8, 191, 197.
