Castes and tribes of southern India Assisted by K Rangachari . consideredas legitimate, and can inherit. But remarried couplesare disqualified from performing certain acts, , thedistribution of pan-supari at weddings, partaking in theharathi ceremony, etc. The disqualifications attachingto remarried people are, by a curious analogy, extendedto deformed persons, who are, in some cases, consideredto be widowers and widows. Among the ordinary names of males are Basappa^Linganna, Devanna, Ellappa, Naganna ; and of femalesEllamma, Lingi and Nagamma. It is said that all areentitled to the honori
Castes and tribes of southern India Assisted by K Rangachari . consideredas legitimate, and can inherit. But remarried couplesare disqualified from performing certain acts, , thedistribution of pan-supari at weddings, partaking in theharathi ceremony, etc. The disqualifications attachingto remarried people are, by a curious analogy, extendedto deformed persons, who are, in some cases, consideredto be widowers and widows. Among the ordinary names of males are Basappa^Linganna, Devanna, Ellappa, Naganna ; and of femalesEllamma, Lingi and Nagamma. It is said that all areentitled to the honorific Saudri ; but the title is speciallyreserved for the agent of their sect. Among commonnicknames are Chikka and Dodda Thamma (youngerand elder brother), Andi (beggar), Karapi (black woman),Guni (hunch back). In the Mysore Province the mostbecoming method of addressing a Lingayat is to callhim Sivane. Their usual titles are Ravut, Appa, Anna,and Saudri. The child-naming ceremony is a very important swords with limes fixed to their edges are set in. KAXNADIYAN. 209 KANNADIYAN a line with equi-distant spaces between them. By eachsword are placed two plantain fruits, a cocoanut, fourdried dates, two cocoanut cups, pan-supari, and karamani[Vigna Catiang) cakes. In front of the swords are alsoplaced rice-balls mixed with turmeric powder, variouskinds of vegetables and fruits, curds and milk. Oppositeeach sword five leaves are spread out, and in front ofeach leaf a near relation of the family sits. The chiefwoman of the house then brings five pots full of water,and gives to each man a potful for the worship of thejangama linga which he wears. She also brings con-secrated cow-dung ashes. The men pour the waterover the linga, holding it in the left hand, and smearboth the linga and their faces with the ashes. Thewoman then retires, and the guests partake of a heartymeal, at the conclusion of which the woman reappearswith five vessels full of water, with which they washtheir h
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