• dr.s.k.devegowda

The village upparthi is belongs to Ramanagara district and it is 11 k.m away from Magadi taluk central. Here there are many important historical facts are available for study. In this village there are 69 houses and in that there are 350 peoples are living. They depended on rain harvest and dairy farming for living. The village named as upparthi because of its unusual ritual which was in vogue. They used to do a ritualistic, that whoever comes back to the village, waving of a lamp round that person’s face. The actual meaning of upparthi is, take away the effects of evil looks by mixture of salt, vermillion powder (kumkum) mixed with water, waving round a person’s face. In this village a flag-pole, which is belongs to megalithic times has been discovered. There is a lakshmi temple in center of the village and four divisions of evidences like monuments, temples of heroes and unpublished inscriptions were found outside of the village.

upparthi, herostone, ramanagara, vijayanagara

"MEMORIAL STONES IN UPPARTHI VILLAGE, RAMANAGARA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no.1570-1574, June-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006228.pdf

"MEMORIAL STONES IN UPPARTHI VILLAGE, RAMANAGARA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no. pp1570-1574, June-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006228.pdf