Tulunadu Culture

  Alupa dynasty The Alupas as a feudatory of the  Western Chalukyas  in coastal Karnataka issued coins with  Kannada  and  Nagari  inscriptions on them. Coins with Kannada legends seem to have minted in Mangalore and those with Nagari legend at the Udupi mint. Kannada was their language of administration. The Pagodas and Fanams were the common coinage of all the Alupa kings. The obverse of the coins carried the royal emblem "Two Fishes" and the reverse had the legend "Sri Pandya Dhanamjaya" either in Nagari or old (Hale) Kannada. [16] This paragraph is about the inscription found at Neelavara temple of Udupi district. This is all about the grant in "Gadyana" denomination. The Alupas while ruling from Barakuru showed great interest in the development of temple. This record is of the Alupa ruler Veerapandyadeva, dated 1258 CE mentions about his instruction to "neeruvara munnuru" i.e. Neeruvara-300, the modern Neelavara village Assembly. It states t...

  Info of Tulu language The Indian census report of 2011 reported a total of 1,846,427 native Tulu speakers in India. [4]  The 2001 census had reported a total of 1,722,768 native speakers, [7]  According to one estimate reported in 2009, Tulu is spoken by 3 to 5 million speakers in the world. [8]  There is some difficulty in counting Tulu speakers who have migrated from their native region as they often get counted as  Kannada  speakers in Indian Census reports [1] Separated early from  Proto-South Dravidian , [9] Tulu has several features not found in  Tamil–Kannada . For example, it has the  pluperfect and the  future perfect , like French or Spanish, but formed  without an auxiliary verb . Robert Caldwell , in his pioneering work  A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages , called this language "peculiar and very interesting". According to him, "Tulu is one of the most highly developed langu...

 One of the most worshipped daiva throughout Tulunadu is Koragajja. Any thing which is lost, any work to be done o ny issue to be solved first and foremost, people call this divine. Koraga Thaniya is the historical figure and not a mythical creation. Dravidian of Indian worship thier ancestors, who did extra ordinary things for the graeter goodness to thier community. Due to which they were recognized and worshipped by thier later descendants. Meaning :-                     Koraga Taniya who is popularly called as koragajja. Here "Koraga" is the community name and "Ajja" is the word in Tulu language usually used for old man citizen.                                Even though he attained the divinity during his middle age: peope started calling him "Ajja" becauseof love and affection towards him.       Story :-       ...