Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society July 1943

On the last day of the guar the ancestral spirits interested in this soul come in response to the invocation of the priest and take it to the permanent abode of the ancestral spirits. [...] Failnre to do any of these would brFng upon the delinquent the wrath of the offended deities and spirits during his life time only and failure to perform the funeral rites of a dead person would keep "6 G. V. SITAPATI the Sto/F-purFid-rin of the dead person in the stage of a A-alb-Col end bring upon the delinquent the wrath of the kulban as well as of the ancestral spirits interested in that de [...] The development of the magico-religious beliefs and practices among the Sams is analagous to the development of the same among the Aryans of the Vedic period. [...] The development of the medical practice among the Soras le closely analogous to the development of the same among the Avans in the Vedic period. [...] As Rumbold points out the subordinates had been found to want either ability or inclination to enforce payment of the arrears from whence arose the necessity of adopting a new mode".2 Most of the servants of the Company were so deeply concerned' in the pecuniary affairs of the zamindars that any effective grasp of the affairs of the latter from the view-point of the Company was difficult to obtai