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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p. 260.

260 KADIRI TALUK chiefly coarse red earth mixed with disintegrated granite, which is often impregnated with soda and other salts. Black cotton soil is, however, with in patches here and there. The chief products are horse-gmtn, drolum sugarca, and cotton. A good deal of jaggery (co sugar) s produced. Hematite u ecurs in small, quantities and used to be smelted by the primitive native proce Kadiri Town.-Head- quarters oftbeshibh of the - Area in Cuddapah District, Madras, situated in 14° 6′ N. And 78° 10′ E. Population (1911), 11,493. A large temple here (one of the most famous n the District) is dedicated to Namsimha, to whale festival any pilgrim smt in the early part of the year. It is said that o image of Narasimha was found in an ant-hill under a rhrndra tree, but the same story is told of other place,. The name of this tree in Sanskrit s khudri; and traditions totes that when the jungle was cleared by Ranga Nayudu, a local chieftain of Pamom, and he temple was built, this name was give o the town which o and the shrine. It was for a long time the practice to let loose a tiger or leopard at the fnstivel bere in January and shoot at it, but, one year a bystander w shot instead, and the custom was prohibited by the Collector. Two days after the car-procession, Pamiyans and other low- caste people ontrary to all precedent-ore allowed to or,, the temple. They bathe n the river close by and pass into the building in great crowds, carrying ,,all bundles containing co' and jewels wrapped up in cloths, which they present to the god. These bundles erved by a person employed by contractors he farm the prlvilegeec Kadiri show signs of having at one dine been a Musalman town. Though the existing buildings bear no trace of Muhammadan archi tecture, for two miles round there is a large umber of tombs and mosques, mostly decayed but some still well' preerved. The place was formerly the seat of a local chieftain. When Mumo took over the country he sent for the chief to settle with him the amount of revenue he was to pay. The refused to c a detachment was sent against him. They surprised the fortified temple in which be had taken post, but he esceped in the confusion. His posses were, however, confiscated. ce the town became a station on the South Indian RA, lway, it hSinas ineased in importance a a trade centre. A brisk business in grain is transacted. There is, a branch of the London Missionary Society. Kadod.-Place of Hindu pilgrimage in he Broach leluha of Broach District, Bombay, situated in 21° 44′ N. And 73° 8′ E, on the right bank of the Narbada, about balf-way between the city of Broach and Suklatirtha. The site of the fair is a very small hamlet with only twelve houses and a population (rgor) of 53. The ceremomes,.which occur one very nineteen years when VaishAkh (April-May) happens to be