User:Thigala Agnivamsha Kshatriya

Thigalas are the Kannada and tamil language speakers. The caste that is know by the name, the cateman were called agni or vanni kula davaru, the desendendes of vani raja.

The name vanneru is derived from the Sanskrit vanhi, means fire and there is a legend to explain the connection,which is similar to that the agnikulas were from a sacrificial fire. In fact these were agnikula warriors. They were called the desendendes of agni banniraya. They are also know as the devotees dharmaraya,as they worship the eldest of the pandava brothers as there patron deity. Usally know as thothada thigala, there chief profession being agriculture and as arava or tamil reddy or pallies(villagers).

Gowda was the title of the headman of the caste and is exclusively born with. The earliest home according to tradition us kanchi puram (conjivaram)

They speak Kannada, tamil, telugu languages those who speak Kannada are the earliest emigrant. Found in Tumkur, Bangalore, Bangalore rural Hassan ,Ramanagara, Mandya, kolar.(The Mysore casts & Tribes)

PALLI OR VANNIYAN(castes and tribes of southern India)

1871 records that "a book has been written a native to show that the pallis(pullies or vanniar) of the south are descendants of the fire race (Agnikula) of the Kshatriya"

In 1907 a book entitled Varuna Darpanam(Mirror of castes) was published in which an attempt is made to connect the caste with the Pallavas.

Kulasekhara, one of the early travancore kings, and one of the most renowned Alwars reverenced by the Sri Vishnava community in Southern India, is claimed by the pallis as a king of their caste. Even now at the parthasarathi temple in Triplicane (in the city of Madras) which according to inscriptions is a Pallava