Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Jain Vaisya

by Edgar Thurston

Jain Vaisya. — The name assumed by a small colony of "Banians," who have settled in Native Cochin. They are said *^[1] to frequent the kalli (stone) pagoda in the Kannuthnād tāluk of North Travancore, and believe that he who proceeds thither a sufficiently large number of times obtains salvation. Of recent years, a figure of Brahma is said to have sprung up of itself on the top of the rock, on which the pagoda is situated.

1. * N. Sunkuni Wariar. Ind, Ant., XXI, 1892.