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In south India, aval is still the word for beaten rice. The Kuruntogai (of about the 6th century AD) describes its manufacture by beating flat wet paddy, using a pestle of black heart-wood (Srinivasa Iyengar, 1932, pp. 253-300) and the Perumpanurrupadai, one of the Ten Songs (Rasanayagam, 1926, pp. 130-160), mentions aval itself.