Teikirzi gave to each village its kwarzam, or sacred name, and settled the method of making new pep.
The name of Teikirzi occurs frequently in other legends. One story not mentioned elsewhere is the following:—
When Teikirzi was living at Nòdrs the people of Mysore came to fight her, but as they approached, the woods made a great noise. When the Mysore people heard the noise they stopped, and then Teikirzi cursed them and said, “Let them become stones,” and they were turned into stones, which are still to be seen below Nòdrs.
Teipakh, or Tirshti
I know very little about the life-history of this deity, but he is very widely mentioned in the prayers and incantations of the Todas, and is one of their most important gods. He was the brother of Teikirzi, and differs from most other Toda deities in being a river god, Teipakh being the Toda name of the Paikara river.
Teipakh is the nòdrodchi of the Piedr and Kusharf clans.
Although there was considerable agreement that Teipakh [[188]]and Tirshti were one and the same god, there was some doubt about it, and, according to one account, Tirshti was only another name for Teikirzi.