Ancestral Villages
The Hebbar Iyengars are an immigrant Brahmin group from Tamil Nadu who settled in the Karnataka province, and their descendants formed themselves into five groups called Panchagrama, each being composed of five villages.
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“Odour of blood on the ancestral stair!
And we that have shed none must gather there
And clamour in drunken frenzy for the moon.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)