Rawthers and horse, different views

Rawther was a traditional military title of good old days with certain rights and privileges bestowed by the rulers for their nobles and military men. But, later it became a nominal name as the Kings themselves became.  He is the fifth child born to his parents. His early life was humble, simple and low profiled, as usually as was any of those ignorant country boys of the sort he had belong to.

 

The word Rawther is said to have come from the word Mauther, which means people in charge of elephants' and horses' divisions of the king's army. The myth says that, Rawthers originally belonged to Pandya Desam near Madurai in Tamil Nadu (currently Chennai) and migrated to Travancore during an attack from Thirumalainaicken. Some of the Rawther families are then migrated to different places of Kerala; including Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Kollam and Eduki districts and Malabar.