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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
are not afraid of the Kurumbas, who are generally shunned 
as "wkards. 
Very many conjectures have been ventured to explain 
the term Toda or Tuda. The d in this word is, according to 
Bishop Caldwell and the Eev. Mr. Metz, dental and not 
Ungual, as the Rev. Dr. Pope is inclined to believe, for he 
spells it Tuda. Dr. Pope does so probably to support the 
derivation he proposes. He connects the name of the Toda 
with the Tamil word Tolam, herd, and derives from it a pro- 
blematic word Tolan, in the sense of herdsman. The modern 
Tamil Tolii, a fold for cattle, is the root of Toluvam which is 
again contracted into Tolam. Tdluvar signifies according 
to the dictionaries agriculturists, but the word Tolar in this 
meaning is not given. Besides, the o in Tolar is long, while 
that in Toda is short. Moreover, the people who keep these 
cattle-stalls are not herdsmen, but agriculturists. On the 
other hand the Todas are a pastoral, and not an agricultiiral 
tribe.^6 
Having met with no explanation which satisfies me. I 
venture to propose one myself. I believe that the t in Toda 
or Tuda is a modification of an original and that the real 
name is Koda or Kuda. This I explain as a derivation of 
'6 See Dr. Winslow's Tamil and English Bictiomry, p. 636, where Tohirar 
O^T(Lp<a//f is explained as agfriculturists, ldq^^S'S^JLC'tssbt. In Col. 
Marshall's Phrenologist amongst the Todas the first note on p. 1 is as follows : 
" Todan. Tamil, Toravam and Toram = a herd. And thus Toravan or 
TOran= herdsman. (Pope)." Compare Bishop Caldwell's Introduction (?<»«- 
parative Bravidian Grammar, 37: "Dr. Pope connects the name of the 
Todas with tho Tamil woid Tora, a herd : but the d of Tuda is not the 
lingual d, but the dental, which has no relationship to /-or /. The derivation 
of the name may be resjarded as at present unknown." The Eev. F. Kittel 
writes to the Indian Antiquary, vol. Ill, p. '205 : " lu Part XXIX of the 
Indian Antiquary, p. 93 seq. the name of a weU-known small tribe on the 
Nllasriri is given as ' Toda.' The lingual d in this word is not in the 
mouth of the NLlagiri people, these pronouncing it ' Toda.' The same 
remark is to bo applied to the word ' Ecta ' on p. 96 ; the true spelling of 
this name is ' A'o<«.' The word ' Toda ' may mean ' man of the top,' sell, 
of the hills. ' Kota ' can be derived from various Drftvida roots ; it is 
difficult to say what its true meaning is. Certainly it does not mean ' eow- 
killer,' as some Lave thought.'' 
