Village Fair

It’s been a good vacation to native this time, as there was a village fair.
Summer vacation wouldn’t have been better without village fair and family get together.
Samuhik vivah (Mass marriages in one roof) had been organized on this fair occasion to help those who cannot afford marriage cost individually.
They have been conducting group marriage ceremony from fast 5 years.

Really it is an appreciable effort by village leaders. It helps those who cannot afford marriage expenses. All village people and surrounding people voluntarily contribute for this event and make it successful.

This time there were 24 couples entered into marriage knot. This is not an easy task to handle, requires prepared plan to execute and control the crowd. Enough food was prepared but the serving of food was not managed properly.

Yamanuru - shrine: Symbol of Secularism

Yamanuru, a village located near Navalagund in Dharwad District. There is a temple which is indeed a symbol of secularism, where all religious people worship. Distant located devotees visit this place on every Thursday.
The temple attracts all kind of devotees, irrespective of caste and creed. Though temple looks like Muslim dargha externally, it has Hindu god idol (Ganesh) on front door. God name also resembles combination of Hindu and Muslim name. The tradition is that, most of the devotees take a dip in a small stream of water. Devotees don’t bother to take a dip in highly contaminated water. They call it as a tradition and belief to take bath before visiting temple. I feel it’s a height of belief to take bath and drink such impure water in the name of devotion.

Here I have uploaded some pics of this holy place.

Helavaru

This time when I had been to native, I could able to meet and gather some information about Helavaru.
Helavaru means narrator, they narrate history of a family.
Helavaru is a community name. They basically live in North Karnataka region.
Their profession is to maintain a record of family histories and narrate about family origin and its branches.

In the winter season they wander village to village and visit each house of village to narrate about that family history.
They always move along with pink color shawl, wrapping records containing books in it and basic necessities like tent materials, cart etc.

Basically they start reading origin of family and head of family from whom it’s been rooted to latest member of the family, maintaining it in a chart. Vary similar to one which we use in organization chart at office.

If there is any new member name to be added in the list (new birth in the family) will be recorded by them. It is a tradition that village people have to give them something like money, grains or any domestic animals like cow, hen, goat etc.

Above are the pictures of their records and their photo’s along.

Godachi Veerabhadreshwar

One of the ancient temple located in a village called Godachi, which is in Belgaum destrict of Karnataka state. A holy place of deity shree veerabhadreshwara, an incarnation of lord Shiva.
The temple is said to have been built during the period of Vijayanagar. According to a legend, Shivasharanas on way to Ulvi fought a battle here.

Many far distance devotees worship this god. Most of the devotees visit this temple on every purnima and Amavasya. Yearly once there would be a fair held to honor deity shree Veerabhadreshwar, more than 30000 devotees gather to mark the celebration. My native is located very near to this place. Its pleasure to recall those joyful day's of going to fair in a bullock cart.

Everyone enjoy and celebrate fair in thier own style, especially for kids lots of things would be there to enjoy like rotating swing, kids train, mini circuses and fun shows. Women would go on their own way of fair celebration by purchasing lots of house hold equipmets alongwith visiting stationery shops to purchase bangles and other adorning items.

Dramas are among the main attraction of this fair. Every year they put drama tents and play social and comedy based dramas. A good entertainment for those who love to watch drama. The shows run for months together.

I have an association to this place. I stayed here for 3 years during my higher primary education. This place is so pleasant because of divine atmosphere. I feel, the combination of spiritual and calm environment helped me to develop good study habits

Madikeri, a Heaven place on Earth

A place to enjoy full of greenery, mist clouds, beautiful blue sky, fresh air to breathe in, total awesome nature panorama and also some tourist places to visit.
It is nice to visit in cold season to this place.

Origin of River Cauveri

This place is called Talcauveri located in the midst of green mountains and blue peaks.
It is about 40 kms of distance from the city Madikeri.

It is a place where it is surrounded by many mountains and one can feel real heaven here. A forceful steady wind forces everyone to be cautious going beyond fenced area. Don’t forget to take sufficient snaps at this view point covering all directions.

It has become a holy place where the river cauveri has its origin.
There is a steep mountain adjacent to this holy place where one can go on top of the hill through steps. Here you get to see beautiful panorama of nature.
I never thought that this place would appear so pleasant to me.

Raja Seat Madikeri

Raja’s Seat, literally meaning Seat of the King, is located at the western end of Madikeri and is a well maintained.

This is where Madikeri Raja was used to watch a beautiful Sunset from this place.
It is really nice place to watch the nature’s beauty in the evening along with sunset.
It is a panorama of nature which will turn into rosy in the evening when sun began to set.
Very deep indeed and vast greenery at the far end overlapped mountains where sun immerses.