The people of Kodagu celebrated the annual ‘Kail Muhurtha’ with traditional fervour and gaiety in the district on Saturday. The festival – also called Kail Pold – signals the end of a season of agricultural activities.
People cleaned their agricultural implements such as yokes, ploughs and burnished firearms and worshipped them on the occasion. The elders led the prayers in front of the ‘Ain Mane’ or ancestral house by lighting the lamp.
The festival was observed at the house of Kodava Sahitya Academy former president Bacharaniyanda P Appanna in Kushalnagar and Ain Mane of Putharira family at Chettalli on Saturday.
As a part of the festival, Appanna had neatly arranged the agricultural implements, the firearms used in the past and other antique household utensils in front of the house. The weapons of yesteryear like ‘Odikathi,’ ‘Peechekathi,’ ‘Pilkathi,’ ‘Koyakathi,’ ‘Balkathi,’ ‘Maradudi,’ ‘Cheppu,’ ‘Noputtora,’ ‘Kanjikala,’ ‘Chekala,’ ‘Bellakomme,’ ‘Mumbatta,’ ‘Latin,’ ‘Karikuttu,’ ‘Kaikane,’ ‘Taave,’ ‘Gujai,’ ‘Poliya,’ ‘Koopar,’ ‘Nengi,’ ‘Karagante,’ and lamps were the highlight at the exhibition.
Pork dishes and ‘taliyaputt’ (a pudding made of rice dough) apart from ‘kadumbutt’ (rice dumplings) are the special dishes prepared during the festival. Apart from this, they savoured ‘Paniputt,’ chicken curry and idli.
In shooting the coconut placed atop a tree, Dr Vikram Appanna and Dr Shanila Vikram emerged victorious at Kushalanagar. Speaking on the occasion, Bacharaniyanda P Appanna said that modernisation is affecting the tradition of the land. There is a need to preserve the tradition and culture of the land and pass it on to the future generation, he reminded.
Published 03 September 2016, 18:12 IST