Note 19 — J
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Jain Vaisya.—The name assumed by a small colony of “Banians,” who have settled in Native Cochin. They are said19 to frequent the kalli (stone) pagoda in the Kannuthnād tāluk of North Travancore, and believe that he who proceeds thither a sufficiently large number of times obtains salvation. Of recent years, a figure of Brahma is said to have sprung up of itself on the top of the rock, on which the pagoda is situated.