Kakkada Padinett · Kakkada 18 Festival The eighteenth day of Kakkada, the Kodava month of Karkataka, is the one day the madd thoppu is cut.

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Kakkada Padinett · Kakkada 18

ಕೋಡವ

ಕಕ್ಕಡ ಪದಿನೆಟ್ಟ್

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The eighteenth day of Kakkada, the Kodava month of Karkataka, is the one day the madd thoppu is cut. It is the leaf of Justicia wynaadensis, which grows wild on the Kodagu banks and in the shade of the estates, and which is held to carry eighteen medicines on the eighteenth of Kakkada and fewer on either side of it. The leaves are pounded on stone, the dark juice is pressed out through a cloth, and the rice batter mixed with it comes out of the steamer almost black. Madd puttu and madd payasa are given to everyone in the house, the children first, because the medicine is the point of it. Kakkada is the month in which nothing is begun in Kodagu, and this is the one day in it that is looked forward to.

Deity

Igguthappa

Kind

Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.

Kakkada 18, the eighteenth day counted from the day the Kodava month of Karkataka opens, which puts it on 2 or 3 August. The leaf is cut in the morning and used the same day.

This day carries no instant that can be put on a clock: it is fixed by the tithi or the nakshatra running at sunrise, or by a moonrise the app does not compute. The rule above is the whole of it.

No fast is kept. The food is the observance, and a Kodava household that keeps nothing else in Kakkada keeps this.

Kerala keeps the same month as Karkidakam, with the Karkidaka kanji of medicinal grains and the Ramayana read through it, and Tulu Nadu keeps the Aati Amavasye with the paale bark decoction drunk once a year before dawn. The three are one idea: the wettest month is the month the body is treated in.

The dates above are the Kodagu reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.

Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.