Pesala (seeds of Phaseolus Mungo: green gram).--An exogamous sept of Jogi. Peta (street).--A sub-division of Balija. Pettigeyavaru (box).--A sub-division of Gangadikara Vakkaliga. Pichiga (sparrow).--An exogamous sept of Boya and Devanga. The equivalent Pital occurs as a sept of Mala. Pichigunta.--The name Pichigunta means literally an assembly of beggars, who are described [97] as being, in the Telugu country, a class of mendicants, who are herbalists, and physic people for fever, stomach-ache, and other ailments. They beat the village drums, relate stories and legends, and supply the place of a Herald's Office, as they have a reputation for being learned in family histories, and manufacture pedigrees and gotras (house names) for Kapus, Kammas, Gollas, and others. The Picchai or Pinchikuntar are described in the Salem Manual as "servants to the Kudianavars or cultivators--a name commonly assumed by Vellalas and Pallis. The story goes that a certain Vellala had a hundred and two children, of whom only one was a female. Of the males, one was lame, and his hundred brothers made a rule that one would provide him with one kolagam of grain and one fanam (a coin) each year. They got him married to a Telugu woman of a different caste, and the musicians who attended the ceremony were paid nothing, the brothers alleging that, as the bridegroom was a cripple, the musicians should officiate from charitable motives. The descendants of this married pair, having no caste of their own, became known as Picchi or Pinchikuntars (beggars, or lame). They are treated as kudipinnai (inferior) by Vellalas, and to the present day receive their prescribed miras (fee) from the Vellala descendants of the hundred brothers, to whom, on marriage and other festivals, they do service by relating the genealogies of such Vellalas as they are acquainted with. Some serve the Vellalas in the fields, and others live by begging." [97] The caste beggars of the Tottiyans are known as Pichiga-vadu. Pidakala (cow-dung cakes or bratties).--An exogamous sept of Devanga. Dried cow-dung cakes are largely used by natives as fuel, and may be seen stuck on to the walls of houses. Pidaran.--A section of Ambalavasis, who, according to Mr. Logan [98] "drink liquor, exorcise devils, and are worshippers of Bhadrakali or of Sakti. The name is also applied to snake-catchers, and it was probably conferred on the caste owing to the snake being an emblem of the human passion embodied in the deities they worship."