Kabbinale

Kabbinale
village
Country	India
State	Karnataka
District	Udupi
Taluk	Karkala
Government
• Body	Gram panchayat
Languages
• Official	Tulu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 code	IN-KA
Vehicle registration	KA 20
Website	karnataka.gov.in

Simple Farm House inside areca garden at hilly region Kabbinale,India

Kabbinale, a village at the foot hills of the Western Ghats (Sahyadri) Agumbe range, is situated in Karkala taluk of the Udupi district of Karnataka state, India. In the Tulu language, kabbinale means "crushing unit of sugarcane". The nearest airport is at Mangalore, which is at a distance of 86 km from Kabbinale.

This small village is around 50 km from Udupi Town, and the nearest town is Hebri, which is around 20 km from Kabbinale. The area is covered by thick rain forests, evergreen, and populated by wild animals. The last settlement, called Kuchur, is around 1500 feet above sea level. Korth Baill is the highest, and last point of village Kabbinale. It can be reached from Hebri via Mudraadi or Bachappu or Ajekar via Munniyal. Kabbinale village has been included into the Kuduremukha National Park Project and local people of several villages are opposing the Government's move to declare the villages, including Kabbiale, as tiger reserve.^[1] The highest settlement is Kuchoor. Kuchoor is the capital of Hebbar dynasty.

Kuchoor

In Kuchoor there exists a house. The house has a history of approximately 300 to 500 years. The reason for setting at such a height maybe the problem of force conversion from sthaniks to shivallis. This all happened under the leadership of some Saint. That particular Saint used brute power for conversion. So the people who were threatened settled in this place. They established a huge house. It had entrance at the north and a huge gate. The house can be considered as traditional chauki house that is the Centre of this house is an pit open to sky surrounded by rooms on all side. Each family was given a single room. The inhabitants of Kuchoor had built school for their children in 1952. It was ingruated by the district collector of Dakshina Kannada District A.C Humbalaya. For his lunch a huge 14 feet table had been made of single tree. Hindu festivals like Navartri,Ganesh chatuthi and many more. The Tulu Nadu tradition of devil worship is also practiced here. Here the devil is Marlu Jumadi. It was said that an invitation is used to come for the Mysore Durbar. There is some belief that the people's ancestors were belonging to Vijaynagar empire.

Present

20 to 40 years back half of the house fell. Slowly all the activities got stopped. Later on in 2002, under the leadership of Shri Manjunath Hebbar and Shri Ganesh Hebbar and others, re establishment took place. It involved construction of the house, starting of the activities again took place. Today the family's eldest person is Shri Mallikarjuna Hebbar.

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