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About the Okka<\/a><\/h2>\n

Mallengada<\/a> okka<\/a>‘s ainmane<\/a> is located in Ba\u1e0dagarakeri. This okka<\/a> has two pattes – descendants of two ajjas Their ancestors were two brothers. Mandayya, the elder brother who was not married, went to Kashi with King Chikka Veeraraja (who was banished there by the British), and died there. The younger brother, Machayya, was captured by Tipu\u2019s soldiers at Devatiparamb and taken to Srirangapatnam. He returned to Kodagu<\/a> after 14 years.<\/p>\n

When Machayya left home, he requested his neighbour and aruva, Iyyama\u1e0da Chittianna, to take care of his mother. It is said that, fearing attack by Tipu\u2019s soldiers, Chittianna made Machayya\u2019s mother sleep in an attani (shelter to watch over crops) that he had built on a jackfruit tree, while he slept at the foot of the tree during the 14 years that Machayya was away. When Machayya returned to Kodagu<\/a>, he gifted Chittianna 35 bhatti of wetland in gratitude, and this okka<\/a> established the karana<\/a> nele of the Iyyama\u1e0da okka<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Machayya\u2019s first wife from the Chottanga\u1e0da okka<\/a> had no children. So he married again from the Kuppanama\u1e0da okka<\/a>, and made a vow to goddess Ponya Bhagavathi that he would offer her a mu\u1e0di (wooden image) if they had children. When they had children, he got a beautiful six foot high image of Bhagavathi made from a special kind of wood. This image is kept in the urambala, and is carried by the Panika<\/a> who performs the there and dances with it during the Bhagavathi temple <\/a>festival.<\/p>\n

King Lingaraja-II was pleased with the service rendered to him by the ancestors of this okka<\/a>, and he gifted them 750 bhattis of wetland as jagir, and 2250 bhattis as umba\u1ecai.<\/p>\n

Pattedara<\/a><\/h2>\n