Perththo (Perattitalmand). This is a village which is shared by two clans. The part occupied by the Nòdrsol is called Meil Perththo, or Upper Perththo. The other part of the village was said to be general property, but it is at present occupied by Melgars people.
Kozhtudi or Kozhteidi. The special feature of this village is that it has a wursuli in which everything has to be carried out kabkaditi, i.e., the dairyman is not allowed to turn his back to the contents of the dairy. This certainly points to the village having been at one time of importance.
Kars
This is at present the largest of the Tarthar clans, having sixty-seven male and fifty female members. It is represented in the naim, and there was some reason to think that it occupies a more important position in this body than the other Tarthar clans. The family of Parkurs (8) is called tinkanikudupel, ranking next to a manikudupel, and Parkurs was till lately a second or assistant monegar.
There seems to be no doubt that the Karsol have always been an important clan, and its members are often mentioned in the stories, though they do not appear to have had any legendary hero such as those of Melgars and Pan. Their nòdrodchi (ruler or presiding deity) is Kulinkars, now believed to live on a hill near Makurti Peak. The Kars people possess a ti which in importance and wealth is second only to that of Nòdrs.
Kars resembles Nòdrs in having two kudr differing greatly in size. Kutadri is the head of one, which comprises all the members of the family given in Table 7. It has two pòlm, headed by Kutadri and Peithol. The other kudr has eight [[649]]pòlm, of which the chief men are Parkurs (8), Pidrvan (9)[2], Piutolvan (10), Kudrvas (11), Kutthurs (12), Mongudrvan (13), Kiunervan (14), and Keitazvan (15). Till recently there appear to have been only five pòlm in the Kars clan, each of which has lately been divided into two. There is a very marked disproportion in the number of members of some of these divisions; thus the pòlm of Parkurs has sixteen males in five more or less distinct families, while others have only three or four males. Nevertheless each of the latter would contribute the same amount towards joint expenses of the clan as the sixteen males of the pòlm of Parkurs.
The chief villages of the Karsol are in or near Ootacamund, and this clan formerly had several other villages on sites now occupied by modern buildings.
The following are the chief places:—
Kars (Kandalmand). This village is one of the best known of Toda villages, being just on the outskirts of Ootacamund. It is a very typical example of a Toda village; there is a small group of houses, with a large dairy, the kudrpali ([Fig. 21]), called Tarziolv, close to them; just above the houses on the rising ground is a smaller dairy, the wursuli called Karziolv, shown in the background of [Fig. 42] and partly shown in [Figs. 23] and [44]. Opposite the kudrpali are two raised circular mounds with flat tops called the imudrikars (seen in the foreground in [Fig. 21]), on which the body of a dead man is laid before being taken to the funeral hut at Taradrkirsi. Above the kudrpali is the hut for calves.
In the middle of the enclosure within which the village lies, is a row of stones (shown in [Fig. 42]) which are the irnörtkars, and in the ceremony of irnörtiti the calf is driven across these stones.