(g) Stones connected with special features of the dairy ceremonial. I only know of one stone of this kind at a village, the pârsatthkars of Nidrsi, on which the palikartmokh puts milk every morning and evening.
Stones are often used for more than one purpose; thus, the [[441]]irnörtkars of Umgas (see [Fig. 72]) is also a boundary stone, and the menkars of Nòdrs (see [Fig. 12]) used for the game called narthpimi, and the teidrtolkars at the same village are also funeral stones at which buffaloes are killed.
I have given a brief list of the chief stones which may be called sacred owing to their coming in one way or another into Toda ceremonial, but I should like to make it clear that no great idea of sanctity attaches to these stones, and in no case are they shown any definite signs of veneration or worship. They, and many of the other objects described in this chapter, are not sacred in the same sense in which the etudmad or the mani are sacred. [[442]]
[1] At this place there is now only a dairy. [↑]
[3] According to another account, these bells are kept at the wursuli of Nasmiòdr, and the wursuli of Kars has three mani in addition to these. [↑]
[4] As we have already seen (p. 243) there is some reason to think that there has been example of such transference of sanctity to an object in the case of the mu or buried dairy vessel. [↑]