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According to Pattolpalame, compiled in about 1924 by Nadakerianda Chinnappa, the Nairs, Bunts, Vokkaligas and Vellalas enjoyed equal social status with the Kodavas. The Tiyyas, Billavas, Agasa, Heggade etc., formed the next lower group. Members of these castes had access to all the parts of a Kodava's house except the kitchen, the Kannikombare (room where family deities are kept) and Nellakki Nadubade (central ball where the family light is kept). The Yeravas, Kurubas and the Pales ranked next and members of this group would come up to the jagali or the raised platform of the Kodava's nouse but no further. The fourth group consisting of Holeyas, Medars etc., had to stop at the courtyard. Persons belonging to the third and the fourth group had no right to mark their foreheads with sandal paste or vermillion dust and so also their men had no right to suffix their names with the honorific suffixes like Appa, Anna and Ayya.
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