The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c17.27

c17.27

‘And let me tell you, the people of this country have a custom of rubbing their houses all over with cow-dung. Moreover all of them, great and small, King and Barons included, do sit upon the ground only, and the reason they give is that this is the most honourable way to sit, because we all spring from the Earth and to the Earth we must return; so no one can pay the Earth too much honour, and no one ought to despise it.’ People continue to sit on the ground even now, though, one supposes, not for the reason given by Marco.