Council, Lord Brougham, in delivering judgment, observed that "the plaintiffs, not having, in their opinion, alleged any case of injury done to them by the defendants upon which they were entitled to go into evidence, and not having therefore established any case for damages in their suit against the defendants, no question remained but of a mere declaration of a right to perform certain religious ceremonies; that, if the Courts had jurisdiction to proceed to the determination of that question in this suit (upon which their Lordships guard themselves in their judgment), the plaintiffs have not produced sufficient evidence to establish such a right; that, under these circumstances, all the decrees therefore ought to be reversed, and the plaint dismissed (the reversal of the Sudder Court amounts in fact to a dismissal of the plaint); but it is not, as it ought to be, a dismissal without costs; and that this decision should be without prejudice to the existence or non-existence of the right claimed by the appellants, in any other suit, in which such a question may be properly raised." The Komatis wear the sacred thread, and utter the Gayatri and other sacred mantras. A number of them, at Adoni in the Bellary district, refused to be measured by me in the afternoon, as they would not have time to bathe, and remove the pollution by evening. In Telugu dictionaries, the Komatis are given the alternative names of Mudava Kolamuvaru (those of the third caste), Vaisyalu, and Nallanayya Todabiddalu (those who were begotten from the thighs of Vishnu). As already stated, there are among the Komatis ordinary Saivites, who daub themselves with ashes; Lingayats or Vira Saivas, who wear the linga in a silver casket; Ramanuja Vaishnavites; Chaitanya Vaishnavas, who are confined to the Kalinga section; and Madhvas, who put on the sect marks of Madhva Brahmans. The Traivarnikas are a special class among the Vaishnavas. They imitate the Vaishnava Brahmans more closely than the rest. They, and their females, tie their cloths like Brahmans, and the men shave moustaches. Unlike the Saivites and Lingayats, they eat flesh and fish, and drink spirituous liquors. They will eat in the houses of Satanis, whereas other Komatis do not eat in any but Brahman houses. But it may be observed that Velamas, Balijas, Kammalans, Ambattans, Vannans, and many other castes, will take neither water nor food from Komatis. This, however, does not prevent them from purchasing the cakes prepared in ghi or oil, which the Komatis sell in petty shops.