Note 21 — J
Reading edition
Jalagadugu.—Defined, by Mr. C. P. Brown,21 as “a caste of gold-finders, who search for gold in drains, and in the sweepings of goldsmiths’ shops.” A modest livelihood is also obtained, in some places, by extracting gold from the bed of rivers or nullahs (water-courses). The name is derived from jala, water, gadugu, wash. The equivalent Jalakāra is recorded, in the Bellary Gazetteer, as a sub-division of Kabbēra.