The elder brother agreed, but when the younger came to take his cattle which were on the ground he found that they were all dead, and hence he had no alternative but to take off the hides and cure and sell them.

His descendants continued his degraded profession and became the Madgi caste.

In Chanda the following six subcastes of Madgis are reported: The Nulka Chandriah or caste priests; the Anapa or leather dealers; the Sindhi who are supposed to have been performers of dramas; the Masti or dancers; the Kommu or tellers of stories; and the Dekkala or genealogists of the caste.

It is said that Kommu really means a horn and Dekka a hoof.

These last two are the lowest subdivisions, and occupy a most degraded position.