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NELLORE MANUAL.

Aborigines. — Scythian element. — The Dravidians. — The Aryans. - Hindus. - Religion and civilization. - Solar and Lunar dynasties. — Barbarian tribes. — Telugu .-- Kalinga and Andhra - The characteristics of the people. YANADIES. - Origin. - Physique. - Sub -divisions. Marriage customs.- Religion. — Yanadies -Habits and livelihood .- Language. - Crime.of Sriharikota. YERUKALAS. - Habits and means of livelihood. - Physical characteristics. -Crime. — Religion. — Marriage customs. - Institutions of family and property. — Language. — Origin .-- Yerukalavaudlu .--Words and phrases of the Yerukala dialect_Cardinal numbers, Ordinals. - Nouns substantive. - Pronouns. — Phrases. SUKALIES or LAMBADIES. Livelihood. - Crime. - Physique. - Dress. — Marriage customs.-- Language and origin. CHENCHUS.- DOMMARAS.-- OTHER MINOR TRIBES. – Wuddars.-- Pamulävaudlu. — Müttara chavaudlu. — Dasarivandlu. — Pichiguntavandlu. - Criminal propensities of the different tribes. - Statements.

the Scythian hordes penetrated the thick forests of Southern India they found aboriginal races already before them, but races so uncivilized that they designated them as foresters, mountaineers, hob -goblins, and devils. These Scythian colonists had been probably driven out of Northern India by incursions of other Scythian tribes. They settled down in the south and formed the Dravidian group. These Dravidian races of Scythian origin appear never to have been conquered by the fair skinned Aryans, but the latter seem to have come in and colonized the country, gradually to have obtained wealth and power, and, having two castes of their own Brahmins and Kshetryas — to have converted the Dravidians generally into the fourth or Sudra class, admitting the more respectable members of the community into the intermediate or Vysia caste. Thus the Scythian and Aryan elements combined in what we term generally the Hindus, although even to this day the distinctions of caste have kept the two upper castes perfectly distinct from the two lower ones. The Dekkan owes its religion, as well as its civilization, chiefly to Bahar, where the Magadha empire flourished. The country about the Cauvery river was cleared and cultivated by settlers from Oude. Rama's expedition to South India is perpetuated by the temple of Rameshwaram, which he is said to have founded , and which drew numbers of pilgrims from the north of India, who settled there and first cultivated the country. Among them was Pandion , who built the city of Madura. Trichinopoly was built by a colonist from Oude named Chola, who gave his name to the Coromandel Coast,