Story of Kalkuda & Kallurti…
kalkuda and kallurti were born in a poor family of a suclptor named shambu kalkudaand ervadi kaluda was named as “veere” & and kallurti was named as “kalamma”, in the small age they lost thier father so veere thought of continuing his fathers occupation as his father was very famous sculptor , so he gets a work in karkala to sclupt the statue of gomatta, he carefully and beautifully sclupt the gomatta, people frshort om various started coming to see the staute karkala got famous in short time , but there was apolitical mind running in king bailasudda mind, so he made a plan even after the mastakaabhisheka he told to veera to wait for some days as he wanted to personally felicate him for his great work , veera waited for it that night next day morng he was called in front of all and was ordered by the king to cut his one hand and one leg so that he couldnot create such statue any where in world, veere handicapped didnt return to his home he instead went to venur, his sisster at house saw dream that someting wrong has be done to her brother and it has been years fro her brother not returned so leaving her mother at home she went in search of brother she went to karkala there she was told he had left , the girl in early 20 was walking alone at that time one drunkard tried to do unwante dact with her but she was saved by naga , then she went in search her brother and finally find him in venur one side of the place inspite of his one hand handicapped he was sculpting a statue of gomatta ther ewas river passing and across the river onits bank ther was war between bailasudda arasu and venur arasu, kalamma went running towards her brother and cried seeing his condition both kept crying , then kalamma told him that we will take revenge from bailasudda arasu, and that time they came to know through maya shakti abt thier past that they were cursed and sent to earth as human beings in real they were from deva loka , thier fault was that when in deva lokka dev guru brahaspati was absent due to some reason.They called guru vishwakarma and he did some mistake so this bro and sisster cut his head so they were punished and sent to the earth , now after knowing abt the reality both brother and sisster went to the mahalingeshwara temple at venur made a offering to shiva and jumped into the well and became maya, and came in a diffrent form kalkuda wit black face white dots on it with one hand and leg cuted lokked dangerous and sisster kallurti in mahakali form and came out in dangerous form , they went to all holy places took holy baths tooked all powers and at last came to place calle “ubbar”. then they went to bailur too bailauda arasu and tortured him mentally physically at last the king asked abt the problem to a n astrolger he told him that there is new daiva plse give them kola build them a stana and give them thier offerings, king accepted and build stana gave kola in kola he came to know abt the reality of this daivas and he even felt sorrry and that place is know as palli mangaldimatta in our century , after this both brother and sisster helped needy , punished the wrong people, and took thier place in whole tulunad, now they r settled in whole of i\ou r tulunad .

Thank you Kallesha for adding to the post. I did not come across this story anywhere. If I get to know more, I will update the post.

धन्यवाद हर्ष जी – कृपया हमारा हिंदी ब्लॉग भी देखिये – आपको पसंद आएगा.

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