On the completion of the muggu, cocoanuts, rice, and betel are offered, and a fowl is sacrificed. Like many other Telugu castes, the Gamallas have a class of beggars, called Eneti, attached to them, for whom a subscription is raised when they turn up. The Gamallas are mostly Saivites, and their priests are Aradhya Brahmans, i.e., Telugu Brahmans, who have adopted some of the customs of the Lingayats. They worship a variety of gods and goddesses, who include Potharaju, Katamayya, Gangamma, Mathamma, and Thallamma, or Thadlamma. Once or twice during the year, a pot of toddy is brought from every house to the shrine of Thallamma, and the liquor contained in some of the pots is poured on the floor, and the remainder given to those assembled, irrespective of caste. At the festival of Dipavali, the celebrants bathe in the early morning, and go, in wet clothes, to an ant-hill, before which they prostrate themselves, and pour a little water into one of the holes. Round the hill they wind five turns of cotton thread, and return home. Subsequently they come once more to the ant-hill with a lamp made of flour paste. Carrying the light, they go thrice or five times round the hill, and throw into a hole therein split pulse (Phaseolus Mungo). During the whole of this day they fast. On the following morning they again go to the hill, pour milk into it, and snap the threads wound round it. At the festival of Sankaranthi, the principal member of every family observes the worship of ancestors. Various articles are placed in a room on leaf plates representing the ancestors, who are worshipped by the celebrant after he has been purified by bathing. Taking a little of the food from each leaf, he places it on a single leaf, which is worshipped, and placed in the court-yard, so that the crows may partake thereof. The remainder of the food is distributed among the members of the family. At the census, 1901, some Gamallas returned themselves as Settigadu (Chetti). Gampa (basket).--A sub-division of Kamma and Telaga, and an exogamous sept of Odde. The name, among the Kammas, refers to a deadly struggle at Gandikota, in which some escaped by hiding in baskets. Gampa dhompti is the name of a sub-division of the Madigas, whose marriage offerings to the god are placed in a basket. Ganayata.--Recorded, at times of census, as a sub-division of Lingayat Jangams in the Nellore, Cuddapah, and Kurnool districts. The Sanskrit word Ganam means Siva's attendants.