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Marikamba

Before : 1688
The Sirsi Marikambe is worshipped as Durga before 1688 in Hangal aka ancient Viratanagara. As per 12th century inscription found at Adur village near Hangal which belongs to Chalukyas, mentions the Pandavas lived here during their thirteenth year exile and the kingdom is ruled by king Virata. "Hangal fifty miles south of Dharwar in inscription of the twelfth century called Viratkot and Viratanagari, the fort and city of Virat, and is believed to place where Pandavas lived during part of their exile, the name Viratkota and Viratanagari support the traditions according to Mahabharata, Virat was the name of the king at whose court Pandavas spent the thirteenth year of exile. (Adur Inscription)" As per Hindu epic Virata Parva of Mahabharata, Yudhishthira the eldest brother of Pandava, before leaving to Hastinapur from Viratanagar he chants Stotra to worship goddess Durga aka Sirsi Marikambe for her blessings to take back their kingdom. (Note: Yudhistira doesn't installed any new idol he worshipped already existing durga idol in the outskirts of Viratanagara, it is unclear in which era goddess worship started in this region)

Hangal to Sirsi
The Bedarabomma who is basically thief, he rob the rich and donate that to poor, one day he came to know after fair in Hangal the idol and goddess jewels is dismantled and kept in the box, he plans to theft jewels, but that day goddess idol was kept in jewels box and jewels was kept in idol box unaware of this fact , thief theft goddess idol by thinking it is jewels and run to his village happily but when entering to Sirasi he opens box and found a wooden pieces he couldn't recognise the goddess due to it's dismantled form, the dissatisfied thief through the idol box into kotekere lake which is located in Hangal road of Sirsi.

Idol found in Sirsi
Simultaneously Chandragutti fair also happening in same time, the devote named Basava who is from Sirasi village visited the Chandragutti fair to seek a blessing of goddess Renuka, but in the entrance of temple he was mistreated by the adminstration and they don't allowed him to enter the temple, saddened Basava returned to Sirsi, that night goddess appears in his dream and said "'ಬಸವಾ ನಾನು ದೇವಿ, ನಾನು ನಿಮ್ಮೂರಿನ ಕೆರೆಯಲ್ಲಿದೇನೆ''basavā nānu devi, nānu nimmūrina kĕrĕyallidenĕ' 'Basava, I am goddess, I am in your village lake'" when he wake up in the morning runned to meet Villegers to inform this incident, the villegers after hearing this, visited the lake and basava started to circumambulation the lake by praying goddess the box was started to flowing above water, the villegers took that and opened and found wooden pieces, the carpenter in the villegers group came forward to assemble the piaces, after completion of assemble the goddess with eight armed riding tiger and snakes in the head, baffolo in the foot ,

Installation in Sirsi
The villegers informed the incident to villege administration aka sonda tahishldar, and they given permission to instal the idol in Sirsi.

Fair
Sirsi fair