OF BHARATAVAESA OR INDIA. 
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ko or ku, mountain and Koda or Kuda signifies then a 
mountaineer. The change of k into t is perhaps not very- 
common, yet it takes place occasionally. The Tamil kel 
to ask, is, e.g., tal in Grondi ; the Irula kdlage, below, corres- 
ponds to tdla in Tamil and Malay alam ; the Kurg kidatu and 
the Tamil kile, below, is tirt in Tulu. The town Kondota, 
mentioned by Ptolemy, is likewise called Tondota, and the 
district Khandesh is also known as Tandesh. The same change 
can be observed in the middle of a word, as the Sanskrit 
tilaka frontal mark, becomes optionally tilakam and tilatam in 
Tamil, and mtUika is altered into cdttuvikam or cdttuvitam.''' 
Peculiarly enough, when inquiring into their name, I 
was informed by various Natives and even by some Todas 
that the Todavar Q^rr^suir are also called Kodavar 0<st 
And this statement which supports my conjecture is up- 
held by several names of persons and places. I take thus 
Kodanad, which lies near Kotagiri, and is the seat of one of 
the Palais containing some of the most ancient Todamands 
in the sense of denoting the district of the Kodas.'^ One of 
The generally accepted derivation of Telugu or Telinga is from 
Trilinga, but this remains douhtful as the term Trilinga is a corruption 
of Trikalinga, to which the ilodogalingam of Pliny corresponds : '< Insula 
in Gange est magnae amplitudinis gentem continens unam, Modogalingam 
nomine ;" Hist. Natur. Lib. VI, cap. 22. If Telinga is a modified form 
of Kalinga, this word would provide another example of the interchange 
between a k and t. About Tandesh, see p. 135, n. 54. 
The t is occasionally chosen as the representative of all the others con- 
sonants, Kaumarila is thus .playfully changed into Tautdtita vaYed&,n\A- 
desikacarya's Tattvamuktdkaldpa, and paduka into tdtuta in the Pdduka- 
sakasra of the same author. 
'8 T. C. Maduranayaka Pillai, the clerk of Major-General Morgan, 
has told me of his own accord that he has often heard the Todavar call 
themselves and be called Kodavar. Some Kotas whom I asked confirmed 
this evidence. A few Todas told me the same. They might have said so 
to please me, but they had no reason for so doing, as I had not expressed 
to them any opinion on that subject. 
" Kodanad lies on the north of Paranganad. It contains one of the 
oldest mands and between it and Kdtagiri are found the sculptured 
Cromlechs of Hlai ilru. Some derive the name of Kodanad from kodan, the 
Toda word for monkey, which corresponds to the Kota term kode, and the 
Badaga, Kurumba, and Irula korahgu. But the presence of the common 
