Koothali Nair

[5] Per the account, Lakshmi Kettillamma, the newlywed princess, passing through Kurumbala en route to the Ayinhat seat, observed along with her husband a series of strange omens featuring dogs and jackals.

After reaching the Ayinhat palace, dreaming of the kuladevi, and consulting with priests, the Raja decided to give over to his wife and his future issue the tainted territories.

Immediately beneath them in regional rank were Kadathanad nobles of the highest class: the Kurukkat Kurup, Pookote Nambiar, and Murchilotte Moopil Sthani (whence the Komath) ordered as the first three by precedence.

[7] Following the death of Kunhiraman, the last Koothali Moothavar, in 1936, the voluminous jenmi landholdings of the sthanam were extensively litigated and ultimately escheated to the state, beginning in 1939, and accounting for some 47,000 acres of diversely forested and agrarian lands,[8] which were supervised by an appointed special tehsildar.

Their only child, a daughter, married the only son of the Porlathiri Raja of Kadathanadu, and his consort, the heiress of the Komath tharavad.