Maalhos (Baa Atoll)

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Maalhos (Dhivehi: މާޅޮސް) is one of the inhabited islands of Southern Maalhosmadulhu Atoll, code letter Baa Atoll.

Anthropology

In this island there is the custom once every year to take a bath in seven different wells (haiy valhuń feń veruń).This is probably an ancestral Dravidian custom. The Pulaya or Cheruman, an agricultural caste of Kerala, used to take a bath in seven different tanks when they were considering themselves polluted.

References

*Xavier Romero-Frias, The Maldive Islanders, A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom. Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84 7254 801 5
*E. Thurston, ‘Castes and Tribes of S. India’, Vol. 2.