< Castes and Tribes of Southern India
Elakayan. — A sub-division of Nāyar. It is recorded, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, that "its hereditary occupation is to get plantain leaves for the use of the Cherukunnu temple, where travellers are fed daily by the Chirakkal Rāja."
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