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ox THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
that according to tlie statement of Mr. Eamiah, Deputy 
Superintendent of Mysore, the " Lingayet Panchalas (work- 
ers in metals) and Huttagars are called Kotars in this part 
of the country (Harihar), and they worship Kama (god) 
and Kurymena (goddess)." To this remark Mr. Breeks 
adds : " Also that a caste of the same name exists in Marwar 
and Guzerat." Dr. Fr. Buchanan makes a similar remark 
about the goddess of the Paiicalas.^^ 
The occupation and the worship of the Mysore Kotas 
confirmed to a certain degree the tradition of the Nilagiri 
Kotas when they contend that they came from Mysore. 
cow-killer, has been suggested, but this seems doubtful. The Todas caU 
them Kuof, or cow-people." Read also Mr. H. B. Grigg's District Manual, 
pp. 203-213. On p. 203 he saj's : "The name is difEerently spelt Kotu, 
Koter, Kotar, Kohatur and Kotturs. Its derivation is doubtful. The 
Todas call them Kuof or cow-men, and, arguing from this word, some 
connect it with Kd (Sans.) cow, and hatya, i.e., cow-killing. The first part 
of the derivation is probably correct. They are emphatically men of the 
cow, as opposed to the buffalo, the animal of the Toda. The latter they ai-e 
never allowed to keep ; the former thej- keep, bat do not, for superstitious 
reasons, milk." Compare note 76 on p. 166 where Eev. F. Kittel also 
decides against the explanation of Kota as cow-killer. 
The Rev. Dr. Pope peculiarly enough declares on page 261 of his 
Tuda Grammar in Lieut. -Colonel Marshall's Phrenologist amongst the Todas : 
"iV.£. — No Tuda word for cow, plough, sword, or shield." Yet according 
to Rev. F. Metz's Vocabulary of the Toda Dialect in the Madras Journal of 
Literature and Science, vol. XVII (1857), p. 136, and to Mr. Breeks' Voca- 
bulary, on p. 113, the Toda equivalent for cow is danam. Rev. F. Metz, 
loco citato, gives nekhel as the Toda word for plough, and urthUni (pro- 
nounced uUhbini) for to plough. 
88 See Breeks' Primitive Tribes of the Nilagiris, p. 47. 
8' See Dr. Fr. Buchanan's Journc;/ from Madras through Mysore, Canara, 
and Malabar, Madras, 1870, vol. I, p. 477: "The deity peculiivr to the 
caste (of the Panchalar) is Cama<^huma, or Kalima, who is, they say, the 
same with Parvati, the wife of Siva.^' Compare Breeks' Primitive Tribes, 
p. 44 : "The chief Kota festival, however, is the annual feast of Kamatar&ya, 
willed Kamhata or Kamata." Read also Grigg's Manual, p. 205: "The 
Kotas had, it is said, formerly but one deity Kamataraya, but they also 
■worship his wife (Kahasuma or Kalikail, each is represented by a silvex plat-e. 
The god is also called Kambata and Kamata." Kdmafa may be of Sanskrit 
origin, Kimadfiva is a name of Siva, and Kamaksi one of Durg4 or Kill. 
~5^sSr»&o;ivx) ' kamdfamu ' signifies in Telugu workman. 
