Note 79 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.
Reading edition
“No one (in Aïwalátin, that is, Walata) is named after his father, but after his maternal uncle; and the sister’s son always succeeds to property in preference to the son: a custom I witnessed nowhere else except among the infidel Hindoos of Malabar.” (Lee’s Ibn Baṭúṭah, p. 234.)