If he is convicted, both he and the complainant are fined, the latter for the purification of his house, if it has been polluted by the offence.
The success which has attended the Industrial Exhibition conducted by the members of the community at Quilon, in 1905, has induced them to make it a permanent annual event.
The purification is performed by a man of the Marudur Nadu called Rettai Vilakkukaran (man of two lights), who eats a meal in the polluted house, with his hands held behind his back.
They are also called Udaiyans, and tradition says that they came from the Toreiyur nadu or district in Tanjore, from a village called Udeiyapaleiyam.
These are the Serkudi nadu in Namakkal taluk and the Omandur nadu of Musiri.
The Vallambans profess to be Saivaites, but they consider Periya Nayaki of Velangkudi as their tribal goddess, and each nadu has its own special deity, such as Vembu Aiyanar, Nelliyandi Aiyanar, etc.
For example, the Vallambans and Kallans are called the Nattars of the Palaya nadu in the Sivaganga zemindari of the Madura district.
Each nadu has a headman, who exercises supreme control over the villages included within it.
Each village is under a headman called the Ur-Nayakan, and each nadu or mandai under a Pattakaran.
The caste is split up into a number of sub-divisions, called after the name of the tract or nadu in Trichinopoly which each inhabits.
Each visitor then goes to a meeting of the nadu which is being held outside the village, and a Paraiyan and three Uralis inform the headman who have visited the booth and who have not, and ask if it may be removed.
The authority of these officers has in great measure ceased, but some still go to theNadu Desam for appeal.
The two offices conjointly are known as the Nadu Desam.
In the Kollaimalais there are no sittambalams, but the nadu there is also presided over by a Periya Kavundan, who is sometimes called a Sadi Kavundan.
Again, on the Pachaimalais, every five or ten villages make up a sittambalam, over which is a Kavundan, and eachnadu is ruled by a Periya Kavundan.
Each nadu contains some twenty or thirty villages.
The Nattan (headman) of Kanamalai nadu is called the Periya (big) Nadan, and is the headman of the caste.
The nadu headmen on the Pachaimalais also do duty as Pattakarans.
Among the Vellur-nadu Kallans the names of these sections seem merely fanciful.
Seventy-one nadus sent the first-born sons for the sacrifice, but one nadu (Tirumarudhal) refused to send any.
It is a curious fact that the Puramalai-nadu Kallans practice the rite of circumcision.
Among the Vellur-nadu Kallans patterns are said [52] to be drawn on the back of the pregnant woman with rice-flour, and milk is poured over them.
The headman of the Puramalai-nadu section is said to be installed by Idaiyans (herdsmen), but what the connection between the two castes may be is not clear.
Each village is under a Kottukkaran, each nadu under a Nattu-kavundan or Periyatanakkaran, and each group under a Pattakkaran.
Round about Pudukkottai and Tanjore, the Visangu-nadu Kallans have exogamous septs called pattaperu, and they adopt the sept name as a title, e.
In eachnadu a certain caste, called the Nattan, is the predominant factor in the settlement of social questions which arise among the various castes living within the nadu.
With Nadu to think was to act, and when sure that the men were some distance away she moved quickly from her hiding place, unfastened the canoe, gave it a gentle push, and sprang in.
This Nadu well knew, so creeping from her place of concealment she sped across the open, and moved warily around the log building until she came near to the window from which the light was streaming.
Nadu has not forgotten her people; she would go back to them.
The portion upon which the old man had been working when Nadu had watched him through the window the night before was the latter half of the tenth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel.
And yet, why did she think of Nadu when looking at the picture?
Dan was about to give orders to lower the body into the grave when Hishu Sam stepped forward and stood close to where Nadu was kneeling.
Is not Bill afraid to let Nadu go with the Big Lake braves?
The sight of Tonda stirred Nadu more than was her wont.
That was Nadu when she was a sweet, innocent child, the flower of the Northland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nadu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
