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MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN No. 7. Plate I (Frontispifxe). A HANDSOME SINISTRAL CllANK {Tllfbuullil j \ nn/l) POSSESSED BY THE SaTYA BhAMAJI TEMPLE, BET, KATHIAWAR.
MADRAS FISHERIES BUREAU BULLETIN No. 7. THE SACRED CHANK OF INDIA: A MONOGRAPH OF THE INDIAN CONCH TURBINELLA PYRUM) Superintendent of BY JAMES HORNELL, f.l.s., Pearl and Chunk Fisheries to tlie Government of <strong>Madras</strong>. ILLUSTRATED WITH 18 PLATES. MADRAS: PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRESS. [Price, 2 rupees.'] I9i4. [3 shillings]
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Page 10 and 11: IV CONTENTS. (n) Lime-making ... (o
Page 13 and 14: EXPLANATION OF PLATES. PLATE I (FRO
Page 15 and 16: THE SACRED CHANK OF INDIA BY JAMES
Page 17 and 18: PART I.—THE CHANK FISHERIES OF IN
Page 19 and 20: Whether the chank fishery was inclu
Page 21 and 22: Tinncvelly. On the spot where I hum
Page 23 and 24: the war, I have considered it an im
Page 25 and 26: XX year 1786 when it was mutually a
Page 27 and 28: 13 amounted to Rs. 43,500. The tota
Page 29 and 30: 15 Tuticorin being given the duty o
Page 31 and 32: 17 in some seasons. The hours of di
Page 33 and 34: ^9 Pamban at ihe end of June 1911 t
Page 35 and 36: ^t abundance and so replenish the s
Page 37 and 38: 23 his sink stone, the diver quits
Page 39 and 40: 25 and as some men owe alleoiance t
Page 41 and 42: 27 beds, especially those intersper
Page 43 and 44: 29 continuous but given distinctive
Page 45 and 46: 31 fell short of the other expenses
Page 47 and 48: 33 limits and hence that no jurisdi
Page 49 and 50: 35 in obtaining a bid of Rs. 1 15 p
Page 51 and 52: 37 traders in the coast villages wh
Page 53 and 54: 39 with the pearl banks was subsequ
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41 PART II.—THE CHANK BANGLE INDU
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43 chank shells and knew charms to
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45 performed by some of the better
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47 classed as prehistoric though it
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- 49 quantities of fragments of pot
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51 upon the outer surface— Mr. Br
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53 left bank of Papaghni River, at
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55 are examples of obliquely cut "
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57 Gujarat ami Kaihiaivar. Mr. Bruc
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59 these chank remains were two fra
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6i From a consideration of the deta
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^3 As the chank is a religious symb
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65 who found in the quartzite and t
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67 quent upon the general insecurit
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69 Prior to the enquiry upon which
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Risley (II, p. 221) they say that u
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73 Babby and very subject to elepha
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as a manufacturing- centre ; 75 lar
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11 credit. These working sections a
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79 the interment and when they plac
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maintaining 8t however offices and
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S3 almost all clear profit, as 1 re
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% figure in the first middleman's a
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8; the shells from each locality ar
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89 brittle than Tuticorin shells an
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91 The fifth and most inferior o-ra
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93 progresses. On an average it tak
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labour ; others 95 necessitate a lo
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97 formed one extremity of a long s
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99 effect is obtained by scraping o
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lOI as is still the usual habit of
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Bengali people, together 103 with t
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The MuchI is another important Beng
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107 finds detailed elsewhere in the
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I09 were counted supplies of tortoi
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1 1 1 for there the numbers of chan
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to village hawk i no- glass bangles
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"5 In the Nilgiri hills, especially
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ii7 PART III.—THE ROLE PLAYED BY
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ii9 frequently given names that hav
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121 Vishnuvites and the more ancien
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i23 Dravidians who first employed t
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125 holy rivers and of the four sea
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127 when the travelled monk, Cosmas
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129 belong to the Company, which sh
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possessed by the Shank Narayan temp
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133 this priestly caste and in the
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i35 blowing chank in temple worship
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137 In Thibet the call of the chank
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populous T39 districts where Vaishn
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141 the left side of the chest, and
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143 chank is then buried beneath th
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145 is usually recited durino- the
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147 Accordino- to Ananthakrishna Ay
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149 Paraiyan (Thurston, VI, 8[). In
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^51 or beautiful in their owner's e
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153 from 3 to 4 years old in these
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155 The trade in these amulets is o
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157 This is much less obscure in ap
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T59 part of the breast ; it looks m
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i6t utilize these discs. In many ca
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1 63 two in number, now on exhibit
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i65 /) Feeding spouts. In the ordin
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i67 Both the States of Travancore a
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1 69 haemorrhoids are beheved to yi
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171 The egg-capsule of the chank is
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173 PART IV.—APPENDIX. No. I—TI
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175 Details of the net profits real
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177 No. 3.—SALE CONDITIONS GOVERN
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179
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i8i Sfafeme?it showing the annual r
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