Aunvallur (possessors of cattle).—A fanciful name for Idaiyans.
Avaru.—A synonym of Agaru.
Aviri (Indigofera tinctoria).—An exogamous sept of Padma Sālē's, who use indigo in the manufacture of coloured cloth fabrics.
Avisa (Sesbania grandiflora).—A gōtra of Mēdara.
Āvu (snake).—An exogamous sept of Kuruba.
Āvula (cow).—An exogamous sept of Balija, Bōya, Golla, Kāpu, Korava, Mutrācha, and Yerukala.
Āyar (cow-herd).—A synonym or sub-division of Idaiyan and Kōlayān.
Ayōdhya (Oudh).—A sub-division of Kāpus, who say that they originally lived in Oudh.
Āzhāti.—Recorded, in the Travancore Census Report, 1901, as a synonym of Pishārati.
Badaga.—As the Todas are the pastoral, and the Kotas the artisan tribe of the Nīlgiris, so the agricultural element on these hills is represented by the Badagas (or, as they are sometimes called, Burghers). Their number was returned, at the census, 1901, as 34,178 against 1,267 Kotas, and 807 Todas. Though the primary occupation of the Badagas is agriculture, there are among their community, schoolmasters, clerks, public works contractors, bricklayers, painters, carpenters, sawyers, tailors, gardeners, forest guards, barbers, washermen, and scavengers. Many work on tea and coffee estates, and gangs of Badagas can always be seen breaking stones on, and repairing the hill roads. Others are, at the present day, earning good wages in the Cordite Factory near Wellington. Some of the more prosperous
