The National Magazine New Series. February 1902

all the colors of the rainbow on the Lion of Belfort and paying the same attentions to the statue of the Republique? [...] {AUTHORITIES: The Mahawansa Dii5awariscr Rajawaliva and Raja alnakaraj On the wide estuary which Darts the long and narrow strip of the peninsula of Kalpentyn from the north-west coast of Ceylon where the waves tumble with a dull thud on the shingly beach and a few fishing boats float lazily on the water is built the halo port of Puttulan_ far up the inlet on the side of the mainland forming [...] The most important religious and social institution of the ilindus common to all classes of the Hindu community in the South of India irrespective of caste or sect is the Makara Sankranti or the Pongal Festival which falls generally on the first day of the month of Tai and someti nes on the last day of the month of Margali which precedes Tai. [...] The first of Tai corresponds to the 12th or the 13th January of the Anglican year and to the 4th or the 5th in the lunar half of the month of Pushya of the Telugu or the Andhra year. [...] According to Hindu astrological calctllationS it IS the day Which marksa particular stage in the transit of the ;uti from the Southern limit to the Northern limit 1. e. from Dakthnayanam to Uttarayanam and so it is called Sankramanam of passing overt Hence the Sankranti is the day which marks the entry of the sun into the different signs or mansions of the Zodiac and as such the day in quest