{"id":9914,"date":"2019-07-18T09:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:49:31","slug":"ichanda-okka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/ichanda-okka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ichanda Okka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About the Okka<\/h3>\n<p>In the early 1600s king Viraraja asked his Parpathigar to go to every village and meet every land-owner and give his <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> a name to identify it for tax collection and for keeping records. In Devanageri, when the Parpathigar asked for the name of the owner of this land, he was told that it belonged to one \u2018Icha\u2019. So he gave them the manepedha \u2018Ichanda\u2019. Icha means minister\/helper\/instructor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ichanda -1 -Devanigeri<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> under Dodda Viraraja supported the British and fought Tipu when he came to Peggala to wage a war against the British (1788\/89). Their ancestor Karanava Aiyappa died in the battle. A moplah (Muslim from Kerala), along with the spirits of Male Choundi and Korthi brought his body from the battle-field and buried it near the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane.<\/a> Later, a <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kaimada\/\">kaimada<\/a> was built there.<\/p>\n<p>In another version of the story, Karanava Aiyappa, was known to be a brave soldier. Mathanda Diwan Appachu gave his daughter in marriage to him. Soon after the wedding, Chikka Viraraja fought the British in his last stand against them (1834). <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/karona-moolapurasha\/\">Karanava<\/a> Aiyappa who was in the King\u2019s army stood in a strategic spot in Peggala and beheaded 61 soldiers of the British army. When the British army commander heard of this, he sent soldiers with guns to attack Aiyappa. Aiyappa had a thiri thok that could not be loaded fast, whereas the British soldiers had more modern weapons that used bullets and were quick to fire. He was mortally wounded by the shot and ran to the Achappanda fields in Peggala and cried for water. The people of that <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> helped him. Before he died, he asked them to inform his <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> in Devanageri. His brothers brought his body to Devanageri and cremated it there. After his death, he became a beera and was recruited by god Sarthavu as his companion. When the Ichanda <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> went through a lot of trouble, the kaniya who was consulted said that it was due to their Karanava Aiyappawho had no nele to rest in. So they built the<a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kaimada\/\"> kaimada<\/a> and gave him a nele there.<\/p>\n<p>Because Karanava Aiyappa was very capable, Madayya, although he was older, was not allowed to assume responsibility for the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a>. Madayya therefore left the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane<\/a> in anger and built the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane<\/a>, (not far from this <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane<\/a>) called mek mane for his bhaga (Ichanda-2).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ichanda -2 Devanigeri<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ancestor Ayyappa ajja was very brave. He fought against Tipu in Peggala when his leg got cut off. He returned here limping, and died in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane<\/a>. He has a nele where he was buried, near the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kaimada\/\">kaimada<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ichanda-3 &nbsp;Deva\u1e47ageri (Thalakatkeri).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> is not related to the Deva\u1e47ageri Ichan\u1e0da <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a>, and there have been intermarriages between them.<\/p>\n<p>This Ichan\u1e0da<a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\"> okka<\/a> has three bhagas that separated long ago. This bhaga is now the only one with an <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane<\/a>. One of the other two bhagas had an <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane,<\/a> which has been rebuilt as a modern 2-room structure. The other bhaga never had an <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\">ainmane<\/a>. About 25 years ago, when one of those two bhagas had no male members and would have become extinct, a man from the Medura <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> of Madapura (who had land in Kedamu\u1eca\u1ecaur) married one of the two daughters left in the bhaga, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a> paraje custom, and continued the lineage of that bhaga.<\/p>\n<p>Puggera were the first<a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\"> okka<\/a> to come here. Monnayya, the first adi purusha of the Puggera <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a>, gave 200 bhattis of wetland to his friend Ichan\u1e0da Somayya who built this<a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodava-ainmanes\/\"> ainmane<\/a> in Thalakatkeri,near that of the Puggera <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/okka\/\">okka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Once, when a tiger was terrorizing the villages in the area, the Ichan\u1e0da and Puggera okkas went together to hunt it, having heard that the tiger had come to the forest in Thalakatkeri. When Ichan\u1e0da Somayya shot at the tiger, the wounded tiger sprang on him and they were locked in a mortal combat. Somayya could not re-load his kep thok (gun loaded with gun-powder and ignited with a metal cap containing an explosive composition) and the other hunters did not shoot for fear of hitting Somayya. Finally both the tiger and Somayya died.There is a sthana for Somayyajja in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kaimada\/\">kaimada<\/a>, next to that of karanava Achappajja.<\/p>\n<h2>Moolapurusha<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Ichanda-1\">Aiyappa -Ichanda-1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"Ichanda-2\">Madayya Ichanda-2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"Ichanda-3\">Achappajja Ichanda-3<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ainmane<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ainmane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Okka In the early 1600s king Viraraja asked his Parpathigar to go to every village and meet every land-owner and give his okka a name to identify it for tax collection and for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/ichanda-okka\/\" class=\"blink\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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