PALGHAT

[s. 586] : A town in the Malabar district, Madras, 30 miles south-southwest of Coimbatore, 68 miles east of Calicut, in a famous pa of the Western Ghats. Has a large trade and active manufactures. Population, 39,500, of whom 33,000 are Hindus. Station of the Basel Mi ionary Society (1858), with (1903) 3 mi ionaries, 2 of them with their wives; 27 native workerB, 5 outstations, 1 Sunday school, 5 day whom PALI LANGUAGE: One of the Indio group of the Aryan family of languages. It is the fenguage of Buddhistic sacred literature in Ceylon and Farther India, and is written with various It is cla ed as an old colloquial Prakrit, as contrasted with the literary or Sanskrit, but it is not now colloquial in the lands where it is cultivated in literature. local characters. 586