Todupuzha Vellala.--For the following note, I am indebted to Mr. N. Subramani Aiyar. Besides the Nanchinad Vellalas, there are, in Travancore, two sections of the Vellala caste, inhabiting the mountainous Todupuzha taluk. These are the Tenkanchi and Kumbakonam Vellalas. The former are known by the popular name of Anjuttilkar, or the five hundred, and the latter are designated Munnutilkar, or the three hundred, in reference to the number of families which originally settled in the taluk. Like the Nanchinad Vellalas, they take the title of Pillai, and, in special cases, the honorific prefix Kanakku. The Tenkanchi Vellalas appear to have dwelt originally in the Tenkasi taluk of the Tinnevelly district, and to have emigrated, as the legend goes, on account of the demand of a Vaduka ruler for the hand of a member of their community in marriage. The Vadakkumkur Rajas were ruling over Todupuzha at the time of their migration, and afforded them a safe asylum. The Kumbakonam Vellalas believe that they emigrated to Travancore about the commencement of the Malabar era from Kumbakonam in the Tanjore district. Both divisions speak Malayalam, but there are clear indications in their speech that their mother-tongue was once Tamil, and they always use that language in their ceremonial writings. The Anjuttilkar women have adopted the dress and ornaments of the Nayars. Both sections wear the tuft of hair in front, but the Munnutilkar women do not tie the hair on the left side like the Nayars and Anjuttilkars, but behind like the Pandi Vellalas. Nor do the Anjuttilkar women wear a white dress like the Tenkanchis, but a coloured cloth, sixteen cubits in length, in orthodox Tamil fashion. Again, while the Tenkanchi women largely resort to the todu and other Nayar ornaments, the Kumbakonam women are more conservative, and wear only the pampadam and melidu, though they sometimes wear jewels, such as the nagapata tali for the neck. Both sections are Saivites, in the sense that they abstain from flesh and fish.