Thaḍiyangaḍa Ainmane

Location

Thavaiageri (T.Shettigeri, which stands for Thavaiageri Shettigeri).

Features

Small othe pore with only a hall, verandah, kitchen and a room to store paddy. (They plan to build a new ainmane in front of it – stones for the construction have already been brought and kept in the yard). The hall has a large gud, a photo of god Venkataramaṇa, a karanavanḍa thanḍ, and low cement seats on three sides.

It is facing East Direction, it is 55 years old.

This is Second one. The older one, which was over 100 years old when it was changed, was a large thatched house. The bedrooms behind the hall were dismantled about 50 years ago, to make the house smaller. The verandah has an old wooden aimara in front (now in bad shape) and low cement seats on two sides. A bench is placed over the low cement seat along the western wall. There are simple carvings on the panel above the solid door-frame, intricate carvings on the capitols, and an old window with carved balustrades. The wooden machi (ceiling) of the house is in bad shape.

They stopped observing karanang kodpa about six years ago, because not many join for that. Venkataramaṇa puje (Hari seve) is done once a year in April/May, after Yugādi and before the rains, when they offer chicken and goat to Kenchirāya (Venkataramaṇa’s guard). This offering is done by a member of the Parivāra community, now settled in Harihara.