TuLu Research & Studies

A heritage blog by: Ravindra Mundkur & Hosabettu Vishwanatha

TuLu Research & Studies

A heritage blog by: Ravindra Mundkur & Hosabettu Vishwanatha

TuLu Research & Studies

A heritage blog by: Ravindra Mundkur & Hosabettu Vishwanatha

Saturday, May 14, 2011

279. Sorake, Sornadu, Swarga

While travelling from Vitla to Punacha in Bantval Taluk, Dakshina Kannada, you may find an interesting place name usually written as ‘Sw...

Friday, May 6, 2011

278. ‘Pula’ and ‘Pola’ & their Derivatives

Meanings of words evolve over a period of time from their initial usage to current usage. Original meanings may eventually become dim and...

Sunday, May 1, 2011

277. Pāvur, Pāvanje

Location map of Pavur, Pavanje and Todar In a multi-lingual society like ours, tracing origin and meaning of ancient place names can be ...

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

276. Kambala: Kambula

Kambala is a traditional ritualistic sport of Tulunadu, involving race of domesticated water buffaloes in specially prepared slushy fields...

Sunday, April 17, 2011

275. Geography in Puranas : Concept of Continents

Place names reflect to physical divisions of a land, mostly surrounded by a water-body. This is revealed in toponymic studies of any regio...

Saturday, April 16, 2011

274. Kata and Kandiya

Apart from the ancient spirit Gods like Kapri and Kuti, we discussed in previous post, there were lesser known Spirit Gods in ancient Tulu...

Sunday, April 10, 2011

273. Kaprigudda, Mangalore

With regard to ancient place names handed over to us by our forefathers, we normally accept them without questioning. We generally do not...

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