Panjurli Daiva

 The world Panjurli might have traditionally come from the world "Panjida Kurle" which means young wild boar in Tulu language. It is believed that Panjurli is one among the oldest daiva in Tulunadu. It is described that: when the birth of crop took place, during that time Panjurli might have come to this Earth. This might have come to this Earth. This might have happened during the evolution of human beings, who moved from forest towards farming. It can be possible when the human started involving into cultivation and started growing of crops. Wild boars used to ruin their crops to feed themselves. The humans must have thought that as a curse of supernatural spirit which came in form of wild boar and making all this desrtuction. From then worship of wild boar have come into picture. Panjurli is worshiped as boar throughout Tulunadu.

Even today during the kola any Panjurli daiva they follow the custom called "Barne-Korpuni" in which paddy rice is put on plate which is weaved bamboo strips and 2 lamps are lighted on 1 broken coconut. 

Once the Muga is tired during kola /Nema. 1 person stands in front of daiva feeds paddy rice to Panjurli 3 times. This shows our ancestors were worshiping Panjurli daiva to protect their cultivated crops by offering the same paddy rice to him.

Story of Panjurli according to this Pad-danas

There were 5 infants of wild boar in which 1 was separated from the rest of them. Goddess Parvati observed this piglet and finds it pretty. She takes that separated male piglet  along with hr to Kailasa. She began looking after the piglet. This piglet started growing and started developing teeth. Boar started destroying the crops because of itchiness and irritation on its teeth. Lord Shiva gets angry and was about to kill boar. Goddess Parvathi stops instantly from doing so. Lord Shiva ordered the boar to no long stay in Kailasa and cursed him to go the Earth as divine spirit to protect people from evils.

From then Panjurli came to Earth and was worshipped in many places in different forms. Depending upon the place and involvement of other spirits with Panjurli the name also changed. For Example: Annappa Panjurli, Kupettu Panjurli, Alera Panjurli, Varnala Panjurli, Tellar Panjurli, etc. Not only with the named there are different ways of worshipping Panjurli. In some places Panjurli is worshiped in the form of human and in the few places it is still in the form of wild boar. It depends how our ancestors worshipped it.