Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c48.s6.18

c48.s6.18

§ 90. In the low ranges along the Coromandel coast, known as the Eastern Ghāṭs, a few wandering tribes are still to be found subsisting by hunting, the collection of fruit and the sale of firewood to the villages round. The Yānādi and the Cencu are connected with each other, and according to the tradition among the former, the Cencu took refuge amongst the Yānādi when driven from their home in the west. The Yānādi call themselves Anāḍulu, or autochthonous. The two have the same tribal deity, named Cencu, and worship without Brāhmans or apparently priests of any sort. It may be noted, also, that Cencu is the title of a subdivision of the Gadabā tribe, further north, as well as of a section of the Yānādi, and that the same name is given to the Irula in the uplands of Mysore.