Kallurti -Panjurli Story

The word Panjurli might have traditionally come from the word “Panjida kurle” which means young wild boar in Tulu language. It is believed that Panjurli is one among the oldest Daiva in Tulunadu. When the birth of crop took place. during that time Panjurli might have come to this earth. This might have happened during the evolution of human, who moved from forest towards farming.

 It can  be possible when the human started involving into cultivation and started growing of crops, Wild boar used to ruin their cultivated crops to feed themselves. The humans might have thought as a curse of supernatural spirit which came in form of wild boar and making all these destruction. From then worship of the wild boar might have come into picture. Panjurli is worshiped as boar throughout Tulunadu.

                                               

Even today, during the kola of Any Panjurli Daiva. they follow the custom called “Barne-korpuni” in which paddy rice is put on plate which is made up of weaved bamboo strips and two lamps are lighted on one broken coconut.

 once the Muga ⁽⁰¹⁾ is tired during kola/Nema. One person stands in front of daiva, feeds paddy rice to panjurli three times. This show our ancestors were worshipping Panjurli Daiva to protect their cultivated crops and later they thanked Daiva  for protecting their crops by offering the same paddy rice to him.

Story of Panjurli according this pad-danas⁽⁰²⁾  :

There were five infants of wild boar in which one was separated from rest of them. Goddess Parvathi observe this piglet and finds it pretty. She takes that separated male piglet along with her to Kailasa. She began looking after this piglet. This piglet started growing and started developing teeth. Boar started destroying 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 to earth as divine spirit to protect people from evils”.

From then Panjurli came to earth and was worshiped 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,Kuppettu-Panjurli, Alera-Panjurli ,Varnala-Panjurli, Tellar-Panjurli etc. Not only with named there are different ways of worshipping panjurli. In some place panjurli is shown in the form of human and few places it is still in form of wild boar. It depends how our ancestors worshiped it.

Kallurti-Panjurli

Kallurti-kallkuda have displayed their presence in many ways and made people to worship them. On the way, in the place called Baddakatte Rayara Chavadi near bantwal tuluk in mangalore. Kallurti meets Panjurli daiva. Kallurti-panjurli came into conclusion that anymore they have to be worshiped as a “Thage- Thangadi Sathyolu” which means “daivas who are brother-sister” throughout Tulunadu. From then, in southern tulunadu they are worshipped as kallurti-panjurli and Northen tulunadu they are worshipped as varthe-panjurli.

There are no family in tulunadu which do not worship Kallurti-Panjurli. “sanknda sammale Pedhinda appe “which means “nourish like maternal uncle and give birth like mother”. ancestors believed that maternal uncle and mother don’t discriminate with their children, in the same way kallurti-panjurli will be with us in all situation. They are not just worshipped as daivas but even treated as one among us.

Kallurti-Panjurli are believed to be head of the family. No matter what issue or problem is faced by the family, it has to be reported to kallurti-Panjurl Daiva’s. it might be during Darshana or during kola. Judgement right of the family is given to kallurti-Panjurli Daivas. Where, advising is done by kallurti Daiva and showing Right direction is done by Panjurli daiva.

This shows how beautiful our daivardhane is. Daivaradhane is not just the custom to follow instead it is the lesson to understand. Our ancestors beautifully structured the relationship between humans and nature.

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 Daivaradane/ bhootharadane is purely based on nature worship/ ancestral worship. It is inappropriate in changing the customs which was done by our ancestors just because of trends.  Panjurli Daiva do not have any connection with Lord Vishnu's 3 incarnation Varaha. we do not find any connection or evidences to tell both are interlinked. Pad-dans the epic poem which tells the story of panjurli,do not have any stanza refering the same. These changes are later done because of the influence of other culture on Daivaradane.  

Changing name of Panjurli to Varahi or Varaha-Murthi and Kallurti to Vartheshwari , maha kali. Creating new stories which includes mythologies, connecting daivas pad-dans  to God and goddess stories is making daivaradane out of track. This is indirectly disrespecting our ancestors. Ultimately these modifications Leeds into clueless worship with lots of confusion.

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 (01)Muga is basically mask of  Daiva. Which is made of brass, sliver or gold and traditionally made of areca leaf . Each daiva has its own Muga depending upon their stories. It is tied on face or above face of daiva during kola. And worshipped on mane-mancha for rest of the day.

 (02)Pad-danas are basically poem sung orally during kola/nema. which tells the story about particular daivas. this is usually sung with instrument called Thembare