Pan
The Pan clan have their headquarters in the Kundahs and are often called the Medrol, or people of Medr, the Toda name for the Kundahs. The chief villages of this clan are in the [[652]]Kundahs, but they are only visited during the dry season, and for the greater part of the year the Panol live at the comparatively new village of Naters in the most thickly populated part of the hills. The legendary hero, Kwoten, belonged to Pan.
The clan is small, having now about twenty-seven male and nine female members. It is not represented on the naim, and in the Badaga grouping of the Todas this clan is joined with that of Nòdrs.
The Panol have two kudr, and provide the only example among the Tartharol in which the kudr have special names. The formation of the kudr is said to have been due to Kwoten, who divided the people into Panol and Kuirsiol, named after the two chief villages of the clan. The two divisions are also called Pandar and Peshteidimokh.
The Pandar or Panol have three pòlm, headed by Timurvan (16), Todars (16), and Nòrtiners (17). The Peshteidimokh or Kuirsiol have two pòlm, headed by Timners (18) and Imokhvan (19).
The irnörtiti and tuninörtiti ceremonies are performed in front of the wursuli at Pan or Kuirsi. The spots on which the ceremonies take place are not marked by any stones, and the ceremonies are spoken of as paliknörtiti, i.e., “he gives to the dairy,” though, as a matter of fact, the calf passes from the men of one kudr to the men of the other kudr as in other clans.
The madnol of Pan are said to be Sunday and Wednesday, and the funerals of men take place on Sunday or Tuesday, and those of women on Thursday or Saturday. It is probable that Tuesday is the proper day for the funerals of men, but that they are now sometimes held on Sunday.
The following are the chief villages of the Panol:—
Pan (Onnamand) is commonly known to Europeans as “One mand.” It is a large village in the south-west corner of the Kundahs, with two houses of the long variety, with a door at each end and a partition in the middle. There is a wursuli called Keinulv, and a kudrpali called Nersolv, and outside the pen there is a stone called mutchudkars.
Kuirsi (Kolimand). This village is near Pan. It has a [[653]]wursuli and kudrpali, the former being called Marsolv and the latter Keinulv. Outside the pen, called Tu matu, there is a large stone called keinkars, and inside it there are two stones called mutchudkars and pudrthkars. I could learn little of the history or functions of these stones, but they were said to have been “played with” by Kwoten and Terkosh.