Bestha, Holeya, Kamma, Korava, Kurni, Kuruba, Mādiga, Māla, Oddē, and Tsākala. The Tsākalas, I am informed, will not use jasmine flowers, or go near the plant. In like manner, Besthas of the Malle gōtra may not touch it.
Mālumi. — A class of Muhammadan pilots and sailors in the Laccadive islands. (See Māppilla.)
Māmidla (mango). — An exogamous sept of Padma Sālē.
Mānā (a measure). — An exogamous sept of Kuruba.
Manavālan (bridegroom). — A sub-division of Nāyar.
Manayammamar. — The name for Mūssad females. Mana means a Brāhman's house.
Mancha. — Recorded, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as a Musalman tribe in the Laccadive islands.
Manchāla (cots). — An exogamous sept of Oddē. The equivalent mancham occurs as a sept of Panta Reddis, the members of which avoid sleeping on cots.
Manchi (good). — An exogamous sept of Padma Sālē and Yānādi.
Mandādan Chetti. — There are at Gudalūr near the boundary between the Nīlgiri district and Malabar, and in the Wynād, two classes called respectively Mandādan Chettis and Wynād Chettis (q.v.).
The following account of the Mandādan Chettis is given in the Gazetteer of the Nīlgiris. "They speak a corrupt Canarese, follow the makkatāyam law of inheritance (from father to son), and seem always to have been natives of the Wynaad. Mandādan is supposed to be a corruption of Mahāvalinādu, the traditional name still applied to the country between Nellakōttai and Tippakādu, in which these Chettis principally reside. These Chettis recognise as many as eight different headmen,
