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Rh :Innerovya (name of buffalo).
 * Like this buffalo there is no other.


 * Parkūr (name of a Toda).


 * Like him there is no man.


 * The sun is shining. The wind is blowing.


 * Rain is coming. The trees are in flower.


 * Tears are falling. The nose is burning.


 * He is coming, holding up his umbrella.


 * He is coming, wearing a good body-cloth.


 * He is coming, wearing a good under-cloth.


 * He (the palol) is coming, wearing a black cloth.


 * He is coming, holding his walking-stick of palai wood.


 * I have a god. What is to become of me?


 * I am inclined to cry, my heart being heavy.


 * Oh, my child! Do not cry. It is still crying.


 * Thuree. Thuree. See. Be quiet.


 * A robust bull buffallo. Ach! Ach!


 * A big buffalo not intended for killing. Ach! Ach!


 * Is leading the cow buffalo. Ah! Ah!


 * Two or three men are driving it. Ah! Ah!


 * Song in honour of the arrival of the Maharāni-Regent of Mysore at Ootacamund.


 * All we Todas go to her house, and dance before her.


 * She gives us fifteen rupees.


 * She comes near our women, and talks to them.


 * She gives cloths to us.


 * Next day we take milk, eight bottles in the morning, four in the evening.


 * Month by month she pays us for our milk.


 * She goes back to Mysore, and, when she goes, we stand in a row before her.