series, in which Brahmins from abroad once lived and traded), and are said to be still entitled daily to a measure of palpayasom from the temple, a sweet pudding of milk, rice and sugar, celebrated all over Malabar for its excellence. The progeny of the family now count in all about ninety members, who live in eight or nine different houses." Pillai.--Pillai, meaning child, is in the Tamil country primarily the title of Vellalas, but has, at recent times of census, been returned as the title of a number of classes, which include Agamudaiyan, Ambalakaran, Golla, Idaiyan, Nayar, Nokkan, Panisavan, Panikkan, Paraiyan, Saiyakkaran, Sembadavan and Senaikkudaiyans. Pilla is further used as the title of the male offspring of Deva-dasis. Many Paraiyan butlers of Europeans have assumed the title Pillai as an honorific suffix to their name. So, too, have some criminal Koravas, who pose as Vellalas. Pillaikuttam.--Recorded, in the Manual of the North Arcot district, as a bastard branch of Vaniyan. Pillaiyarpatti (Ganesa village).--An exogamous section or kovil of Nattukottai Chetti. Pilli (cat).--An exogamous sept of Chembadi, Mala, and Medara. Pindari.--In the Madras Census Report, 1901, fifty-nine Pindaris are returned as a Bombay caste of personal servants. They are more numerous in the Mysore province, where more than two thousand were returned in the same year as being engaged in agriculture and Government service. The Pindaris were formerly celebrated as a notorious class of freebooters, who, in the seventeenth century, attached themselves to the Marathas in their revolt against Aurangzib, and for a long time afterwards, committed raids in all directions, extending their operations to Southern India. It is on record that "in a raid made upon the coast extending from Masulipatam northward, the Pindaris in ten days plundered 339 villages, burning many, killing and wounding 682 persons, torturing 3,600, and carrying off or destroying property to the amount of £250,000." [100] They were finally suppressed, in Central India, during the Viceroyalty of the Marquis of Hastings, in 1817. Pindi (flour).--An exogamous sept of Mala. Pinjari (cotton-cleaner).--A synonym for Dudekula. Pinjala (cotton) occurs as an exogamous sept of Devanga. Pippala (pepper: Piper longum).--An exogamous sept or gotra of Gamalla and Komati.