Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Kākirekka-vāndlu

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Kākirekka-vāndlu (crows' feather people). — Mendicants who beg from Mutrāchas, and derive their name from the fact that, when begging, they tie round their waists strings on which crows', paddy birds' (heron) feathers, etc., are tied.