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 the remains of the old fort Udaiya Raya Kota. Badaga tradition gives a fairly detailed account of Udaiya Raya. It says he was a chief who collected the taxes for the UmmattOr Rajas, and that he had also a fort at Kullan-thorai, near Sirumugai, the remains of which are still to be seen. He married a woman of Netlingi hamlet of Nedugula, named Muddu Gavari, but she died by the wrath of the gods because she persuaded him to cele- brate the annual fire-walking festival in front of the fort, instead of at the customary spot by the Mahalingasvami temple about half a mile off. Anaikatti is a hamlet situated in the jungle of the Moyar valley. The stream which flows past it tumbles over a pretty fall on the slopes of Blrmukku (Bimaka) hill. The Badagas call the spot Kuduraihallo, or the ravine of the horse, and say the name was given it because a Badaga, covered with shame at finding that his wife gave him first sort rice but his brother who lived with them only second sort, committed suicide by jumping his horse down the fall."

According to Mr. Grigg, the Badagas recognise eighteen different " castes or sects." These are, however, simplified by Mr. S. M. Natesa Sastri into six, "five high castes and one low caste." They are —

1. Udaya.

2. Haruva.

3. Adhikari. - High caste.

4. Kanaka.

5. Badaga.

6. Toreya ... Low caste.

"Udayas are Lingayats in religion, and carry the Siviilinga — the Siva image — tied round their necks. They claim to be superior to all the other Badagas, and