{"id":9917,"date":"2019-07-18T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T10:23:00","slug":"puggera-okka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/puggera-okka\/","title":{"rendered":"Puggera Okka"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the Okka<\/h3>\n

In Devanageri the adi purusha was called \u2018Pugge sthana Monnayya\u2019 because the area was known as Pugge sthana. So the okka<\/a> was called ‘Puggera\u2019. Pugge<\/em> apparently denotes an abundance of sweet fruit which was available in the forest nearby.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, acquired a lot of land in the area called \u2018Pugge\u2019 and became prosperous. He built a mund mane for the okka<\/a>. A group of marauders from Karepalli in Hunsur taluk attacked the ainmane<\/a>, destroyed it, killed all the people there and looted the gold and money in the house. At that time, Monnayya\u2019s wife Kalavva (from the Somayyanda okka) was expecting a baby. She managed to escape to the Ichanda<\/a> house and with their help she went to her parent\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

In the Puggera mane paat, Monnayya\u2019s wife wrapped and hid her little baby in her sari and escaped to her Chomeyanda Mava\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

Her son was named Monnayya after his father. When he grew to be an adult he returned to the ainmane<\/a>, 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<\/a> of the okka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> was appointed as the battyath okka<\/a> of the temple and they took rice loaded on 12 oxen to the temple festival every year.<\/p>\n

Moolapurusha<\/a><\/h2>\n

Monnayya<\/p>\n

Ainmane<\/a><\/h2>\n

Ainmane<\/a><\/p>\n

Eminent People<\/h2>\n

Economist<\/h4>\n