Heritage tour

     PADI IGGUTHAPPA TEMPLE




Located in the Kakkabe town, the Padi Igguthappa Temple was built by Lingarajendra in the year of 1810. One of the most ancient temples, it is located in Igguthappa Devara betta in Aiyengeri forest which is 45 Km from Madikeri city towards Virajpet. The architectural structure of the temple resembles ancient Keralite temples to a large extent.


HISTORY


The main deity at Padi Iguthappa temple is Subramanya or Karthik who is considered a son of Shiva and Kaveri Amman, considered an avatar of Gauri. Temple houses the Murtis of both Shiva and Igguthappa. In this region, the river Kaveri is Kaveri Amma, the omnipresent deity of Coorg and its people.The priest of the temple spoke to me as he cooked lunch for the devotees. He said this is hundreds of years old temple and was built by King Veer Rajaraja. Recently, it has been renovated by the people of Coorg who pooled in crores of rupees for the renovation.


 According to him, Igguthappa is the local name of Kartikeya, the son of Shiva. It literally means the God who gives food. People here believe that once upon a time he lived in Coorg in human form. He directed them to offer him rice. Since then Puttari harvest festival is celebrated in Coorg.


VISITING TEMPLE


         Located just about 10 Km from Madikeri city in the town of Kakkabe, it is easily  reachable by road. You take a ramp-up to the temple where you can sit and look   around for the lovely views of the lush green valleys of Coorg. 
        It is a small temple but a very well maintained one on a hillock. As we walked up to  the  temple I could see a lot of Naga Sculptures under the trees. They all had signs of  being worshipped. Most of them wore fresh flowers. A group of larger Naga stones had  a lamp burning in front of them. Naga is a very prominent sign in all of this region. It reminded me of the Tharu tribals of Nepal, who also have a coiled Naga figure outside all their homes.

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