Sometimes the latter is called by the fuller title paracheri (Anglice parcheri, parcherry), i.e., the gathering place of the Paraiyans. In the gramam live the Brahmans, who sometimes dwell, in a quarter by themselves known as the agrahara, and also other Hindus. In the paracheri live the Paraiyans. The paracheri and the gramam are always separated, at least by a road or lane, and often by several fields. And not only is it usual thus to find that, in every village, the Paraiyans as a community possess a house-site, but there are many cases in which more than one cheri is attached to a gramam. This seems to repudiate the suggestion that at some period or periods the higher castes relegated the Paraiyans to these cheris. Indeed, in some cases, the very names of the cheris suggest what appears to be the more correct view, viz., that the cheris had a distinct origin. For instance, the whole revenue village of Teiyar near Chingleput consists of one Sudra gramam and seven Paraiyan cheris, each with a name of its own, Periyapilleri, Komancheri, etc. In other cases, e.g., Ideipalayam in the north of the district, and Varadarajapuram near Vandalur, only Paraiyan hamlets exist; there is no gramam. In South Arcot there are at least two villages, Govindanallur and Andapet, inhabited only by Paraiyans, where even the Maniyakkaran (munsiff or village headman) is a Paraiyan. Other instances might be quoted in proof of the same opinion. And, when the ceremonial antipathy between Brahman and Paraiyan is examined, it points in the same direction. It is well known that a Brahman considers himself polluted by the touch, presence, or shadow of a Paraiyan, and will not allow him to enter his house, or even the street in which he lives, if it is an agrahara. But it is not so well known that the Paraiyans will not allow a Brahman to enter the cheri. Should a Brahman venture into the Paraiyan's quarter, water with which cow-dung has been mixed is thrown on his head, and he is driven out. It is stated [57] by Captain J. S. F. Mackenzie that "Brahmans in Mysore consider that great luck will await them if they can manage to pass through the Holeya quarter of a village unmolested, and that, should a Brahman attempt to enter their quarters, they turn out in a body and slipper him, in former times it is said to death." Some Brahmans consider a forsaken paracheri an auspicious site for an agrahara. A very peculiar case is that of the gramam founded for, and occupied by the clerks of the earliest Collectors (district magistrates) of the jagir of Karunguli from 1795 to 1825 A.D. These clerks were Brahmans, and it was called the agraharam. It was deserted when the head-quarters of the Collector were removed to Conjeeveram. It is now occupied by Paraiyans, but is still called the agraharam.