Song in honour of the arrival of the Maharāni-Regent of Mysore at Ootacamund.

All we Todas go to her house, and dance before her.

She gives us fifteen rupees.

She comes near our women, and talks to them.

She gives cloths to us.

Next day we take milk, eight bottles in the morning, four in the evening.

Month by month she pays us for our milk.

She goes back to Mysore, and, when she goes, we stand in a row before her.

She gives us presents; cloths and three rupees.

The women cut their hair, and stand before her.