FIG. 71.—THE STONES AT PISHKWOSHT CALLED ‘TEUAR.’
The other villages of the Kanòdrsol, Taknin, Kuzhu or Kushu, &c., are in the same neighbourhood, but I was unable to visit them, and do not know whether they have any objects of interest.
Kwòdrdoni
This is the most outlying of Toda clans, but numerous tea estates have been established in its neighbourhood, and the people appear to have been a good deal influenced by the altered conditions. I was unable to visit any of the villages, and I know less about this clan than any other.
All the villages of the clan are situated in the district of the hills called by the Todas Purgòdr, and the people of the clan are, therefore, often called the Purgòdrol. [[658]]
At present there appear to be seventeen males and fourteen females, but it is probable that these numbers are not complete. There are two kudr, headed by Kiurvan (32) and Atcharap (34). The former has three pòlm, of which the chief men are Puner (31), Kiurvan (32), and Òrudz (33), and the latter has two pòlm, headed by Atcharap (34) and Kudar (35).
This clan seems now to occupy only two villages. One is Kwòdrdoni (Kodudonnemand), where there is only a tarvali, though there was formerly a wursuli, now ruined, in which was kept a mani called Kirsongg which has disappeared. The other village is Katikar (Kodanadmand). The male funeral place is Iudi, and the female, Punmud.
Päm
This is a clan which formerly occupied the site of Coonoor and Wellington. Its numbers are small, probably only seventeen males and thirteen females. There are two kudr, headed by Udrchovan (36) and Pungievan (37). Udrchovan’s kudr has only one pòlm. Pungievan’s kudr has three pòlm, of which the chief men are Pungievan (37), Arparners (38) and Seili (39).
The original etudmad of the clan was Pirspurs, the site of which was used for the Coonoor racecourse. Päm was then adopted as the chief village, but it has been allowed to fall into ruins, though still giving its name to the clan. The dairy at Päm was called Palikûdrbedz and the buffalo-pen, Tûgûdron. Inikitj, where the people now live, is an uninteresting village at which there are the ruins of a tarvali. There is a building in which the four or five sacred buffaloes (nashperthir) are kept, but they are not milked as there is no palikartmokh.