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Deities

Mailara Lingeshwara

Mailāra Liṅgeśvara — Karnataka variant of Khandoba

परंपरा · Hindu

काल · c. 12th c.

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Historical Period12c CE

c. 12th c.

3000 BCE12th century CEPresent

Sacred Facts · At a Glance

Gender: male
Sacred Colours: redturmeric-yellow
Sacred Offerings: rice beer · fowl · flowers · incense

Primary Scriptures

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Mailara Lingeshwara

Karnataka form of the pan-Deccan pastoralist-Shaiva. Mailara Lingeshvara is the kuladeva of Kuruba, Yadava, and some Banajiga communities. Annual Dassera festival with ritual kariyal (black goat) processions.

Significance

Mailāra Liṅgeśvara — Karnataka variant of Khandoba

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✦Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations✦

Offerings: rice beerfowlflowersincense
Sacred colours: redturmeric-yellow

🛕 Principal Temples

Principal shrine of Mailara Lingeshwarac. 12th c.
📍 Mailara, Bellary, Karnataka, India
15.5000°, 76.1500° — view on map
Mailāra Liṅgeśvara — Karnataka variant of Khandoba

🎊 Festivals

Annual community festival
Date varies by tribe/region

Sources & provenance

🎓 2 Scholarly

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Scholarly sourceBook
Tribes and Castes of Karnataka
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Scholarly sourceBook
Karnataka State Gazetteer (post-1947)

📿Hindu में और

Tirupparaittathurai Padmanābha

Ādi-Shakti form at Kollur Mookambika

Ādi Śaṅkara at Kaladi

Agni

Ahobilam Narasiṁha — 9 forms

Aiyanar of Pudukottai

🕉️आपके लिए सुझाव

Arya Samaj

Ayyavazhi

Brahmo Samaj

Ganapatya (Ganesha Worship)

Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Hinduism

Mailara Lingeshwara

Significance

✦Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations✦

🛕 Principal Temples

🎊 Festivals