Puggera Okka

About the Okka

In Devanageri the adi purusha was called ‘Pugge sthana Monnayya’ because the area was known as Pugge sthana. So the okka was called ‘Puggera’. Pugge apparently denotes an abundance of sweet fruit which was available in the forest nearby.

In the late 1500s, Ponnayya was a Paleyagara of five villages in this area of Kodagu. His elder son Monnayya, who established the Puggera okka and was called the adi purusha of the okka, acquired a lot of land in the area called ‘Pugge’ and became prosperous. He built a mund mane for the okka. A group of marauders from Karepalli in Hunsur taluk attacked the ainmane, destroyed it, killed all the people there and looted the gold and money in the house. At that time, Monnayya’s wife Kalavva (from the Somayyanda okka) was expecting a baby. She managed to escape to the Ichanda house and with their help she went to her parent’s home.

In the Puggera mane paat, Monnayya’s wife wrapped and hid her little baby in her sari and escaped to her Chomeyanda Mava’s place.

Her son was named Monnayya after his father. When he grew to be an adult he returned to the ainmane, rebuilt it and started cultivating the land that lay fallow. He became prosperous and famous as the karyakara of the Kodagu Raja. He is the karanava of the okka.

When he went to the Baithurappa temple he was appointed as the thakka of the temple and asked to conduct the annual festival there. His okka was appointed as the battyath okka of the temple and they took rice loaded on 12 oxen to the temple festival every year.

Moolapurusha

Monnayya

Ainmane

Ainmane

Eminent People

Economist

• Puggera M Devaiah

Teachers

• Puggera Aiyappa
• Puggera Ganapathy
• Puggera Juby
• Puggera Subbaiah
• PuggeraAiyappa
• Puggera(Chendira) Parvathy
• Puggera Ganapathy
• Puggera (Ammanda)Ponnamma
• Puggera(Mundiyolanda)Parvathi
• Puggera(Palengada) Vani
• Puggera Praveen
• Puggera Shashi Ponnappa
• Puggera(Baduvamanda) Rohini
• Puggera Poovamma