Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c48.s6.11

c48.s6.11

§ 85. Of the Dravidian tribes, next to the Gōṇḍ come the Kand, or Kond, with their kindred. The main body calls itself Kūyi, but the derivation of both this and the ordinary title is uncertain. The Kand have attracted a good deal of literary notice, partly due to their former practice of human sacrifices and supposed advanced religious views. But the community is much subdivided and by no means uniform in its structure or habits. There is, for instance, the usual division into the hill section, which is untouched by Brāhmanism, and that of the plains, which is adopting both the language and religion of the Oṛiyās and Telugu respectively. The Kand resemble the Gōṇḍ in having pushed up northwards from the southern outskirts of the ranges forming the abutment of the Central Belt to the south-east. A further point of resemblance is the adoption of the