| Kabbinale | |
| — village — | |
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| Country | India |
| State | Karnataka |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
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 Kannada language, kabbinale means "crushing unit of sugarcane ". This small village is around 50 km from UdupiTown, 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 scene of ghats is worth seeing during monsoon season. There is only one way to enter the village, as further you go its a dead-end, the road enters the forests and the ghats. 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.
Kabbinale village is considered an ideal place for breeding, reproduction and habitation for the King Cobra.
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This village has been inhabited by people for thousands of years past. Traces of stone age culture dating back to at least 6000 years are visible around the village. The houses are scattered and found up to 2000 feet above sea level and some of the settlements are virtually inside forest and national park.
Kabbinale had a lot of Jain settlers in the initial times, that is a few thousand years back, but the latest settlers (a few hundred years back) are Sthanika Brahmins, families who migrated from a place called Sulkod or Suligod, a place close to Kollur, a few hundred years ago.Few families migrated here, as they had a major family feud with others families.
Today, the maximum number of population and families are Sthanika Brahmins. One can find small number of Shivalli Brahmins, Bunts, and Billavas as all of the families settled here.
Every one in this village definitely will n't forget great social work done by late Krishna Bayari for the development of kabbinale.he was the instrumental to provide primary school,Roads ,Electicity and Bus facilities to this poor village.
But it can be easily told that this village belongs to the Sthanika Brahmins families, who were the early settlers, as now the migrated family have grown to more than 90 individual houses/families. There are some other hard working families also, mainly Goudlu, who are predominenly agricultural labourers. These Goudlu's are schedules tribal people who are known as 'Malekudiyas' in Karnataka. The settlement of 'Gowdas' can be found in the 'Kabbinale' in many places. They are very hadworking and apart from the agricultures works, they are highly skilled in honey plucking and other wild life related works. Their half income is from agricultural work and the rest from wildlife. Next to sthanika brahmins, these tribal people are the socond highest populated community in the village.
Kabbinale Village is one of the populated settlements of Sthanika Brahmins families. All these families have a common Surname Hebbar.The main occupation of the Hebbars are agriculture, they grow a lot of cash crops like betel nut, vanilla, coconut, coco & spices of various kinds, cardamom, black pepper, clove, ginger, etc. Kabbinale village is one of the highest contributors of milk to Manipal KMF Dairy.
The Hebbars are intelligent, hardworking, smart and brave people. The life in Kabbinale is not so easy, as it rains for almost 5–6 months, it receives a very heavy downpour, as it is in the foothills of Agumbe Ghat.
There are wild animals in this hilly region, and the village is infested with leeches, poisonous snakes and other smalltime animals. The National Park adjoining the settlement contain Tiger,Wild boar, King Kobra and animals. Some of the families have a licensed gun for self protection.
There are two temples in Kabbinale; these temples are called Mathas. Both these temple deities have a unique story behind them.
Kabbinale is near Hebri town (Karkala Taluk). Hebri is well connected to Udupi, Kundapura, Karnakala, Mangalore and Shimoga. From Hebri, there are private buses to some parts of Kabbinale, otherwise autorikshwas are available.
The older of the two temples is called Kellaa Matha, as it is situated in a lower altitude, and in Kannada the word 'kella' means down or below. Lord Sri Gopalakrishna is the deity of this temple. The Uniqueness of the Deity is as follows:
The story goes like this: a few hundred years back, Kabbinale Village, didn't have any temple, and the village elders thought of building a temple for Lord Krishna. Now as the families had migrated from a place called Sulkod or Suligod near Kollur, after some family feud, so the male members, of the migrated families had a plan, they raided their old village temple at Sulikod/Suligod, and brought the same idol of Lord Sri Gopalakrishna to Kabbinale, in the night and when the villagers of Sulkod/Suligod came to know of this, it was already morning.
They came to Kabbinale in search of the idol, there was a fight between two groups, but the people of Sulkod/Suligod, could never find the idol, and the settlers of Kabbinale always maintained that they had not stolen the idol. The idol was kept hidden inside a Pond. The idol remained there for several years, and then it was removed from the pond and installed in the temple. During midnight transportation of the idol, the flute of the idol broke, and even today one can find a silver flute in the Black Granite idol, of Lord Sri Gopalakrishna.
Mella Matta This second temple is in a bit higher altitude so its called as Mella Matha, in kannada mele means up or higher altitude, here the main deity is Lord Sri Laxmi Narayana. This idol of Sri Laxminarayana is unique in that Goddess Laxmi is sitting on the Left leg of Lord Narayana and this kind of Posture of Lord Laxminarayana is very rare.
Serpentine paths lead to several houses, which will be usually in the midst of arecanut garden. As this village was considered very remote, education facilities are minimal. Several elders even today are not well versed with letters. But with difficulties, they learnt to read. Almost all house holds depend on garden produce for livelihood. People are very decent and cordial to newcomers. Even though some private buses ply up to half of village, the other half still depend Auto rickshaw or trekking for conveyance and the total length of village is more than seven miles!
The Natives of kabbinale are very much attached to their village. It is the Hebbars, who are the land owners, and the care takers of the Forest. They take care of the natures blessings, and look after the surroundings.
In summer when there is an accidental fire in the Forests, the Villagers themselves fight like the Fire Fighters and take utmost care of the forest and douse the flames, without any help from the government or outsiders.
Today most of the families have their children's, who have done very well in academics and are based out of Kabbinale, few of them are software professionals, engineers, MBA's, and have a very highly placed jobs, in Pvt, Govt & Banking Sectors. Some Hebbars are well known for their catering and cooking skills. Kabbinaleits have their on contributions to the hotel industry also. Some of the 'Hebbars' and others from the village have settled down across the country as successful hotel businessmen.
The Hebbars of Kabbinale are related to each other, and have a great bonding as they all belonged to a single family, once upon a time.
The Hebbars, are pure vegetarians, and pray all the Hindu Gods, and also worship Spirits. Bhoota worship and Naga worship is common in each and every household of Hebbars.
Every Hebbars House, in Kabbinale has Bhootadaa Kotegee, and a Naga Bana. The Kuldevatha of Hebbars is Lord Subramanya the serpent God.
They have Unique names for their Houses/Estates. The houses are inside their estates, and distance between each houses are average 1–2 km away from each other.
Few Estate names are Heggadthi Bettu, Balegundi ,MelleMane, KellaMane, Sampige, KellaKemmolli, Gubbimaar, KhajiKal, Korth Bail, Honna Koppalla, Guleall, Kepan Makki, Kollegee, Perla, Kuchur, Govindabettu, Kajaane,Gubbimar,Perla,Kotebettu,Durga, Bayarbettu and all these are very interesting and worth studying in linguistic angle.
Two languages are spoken in and around Kabbibnale. Mother tongue of majority people is Tulu; but Kannada is widely spoken. So the people speak a mix of both, which is interesting to study.
There are no Lodges at Kabbinale; Tourists has to stay in villagers'/relatives' house. For food also one has to be at the mercy of villagers. Nearest lodge is at Hebri (6 k.m.) but it is a simple one and Lodges of good quality are available at Udupi.
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