Beluur and Belgaum

[N. Ganesan]

ve.l and vE.l are the same.

> From DED, there was a posting in Indology:
DEDR 5507 lists Ta. veLLALan2, vELALan2, veLLAzan2 man of the VELaLa
caste; fem. veLLALacci, veLLAzacci; veLLANmai veLLAmai cultivation;
vELANmai agriculture, husbandry.....Te. velama name of a caste, man of
this caste; (DCV) agriculture; (Inscr.) vElANDu a cultivator; affix
to the names of cultivator caste in Tamilnad. Cf. 5545 Ta. vEL.


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Sri. Krishna raised a query. Can drvidian & sanskrit mix
in place names?

They do: devanuur, saGkaran kOvil, srikAzi, sritaLi,
srikOyil, sapta maGkai, uttarakOsa maGkai, ...

BUT in be.LgAm, the order is different.
I found Tamil Nadu examples for this order too.
koRRamangalam, pun2n2aivanam, paTTiisvaram,
miinaakshi, viizi mayaanam, paaccil aacciraamam,
kuTantaik kArONam (< kAyarohana), iTait taanam (< sthaana),
tiruneyt tAnam (< sthAna)

So, can beL(cognate with Ta. ve.l, vE.l) join with
 'gAma' (< grAma) to produce be.lgAm?

Regards,
N. Ganesan