Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Katāri

by Edgar Thurston

Katāri (dagger: katār). — An exogamous sept of Golla, Mutrācha, and Yerukala. The dagger or poignard, called katār, has "a solid blade of diamond section, the handle of which consists of two parallel bars with a cross-piece joining them. The hand grips the crosspiece, and the bars pass along each side of the wrist."*^[1]

1. • Yule and Burnell. Hobson-Jobson.