Curse Of The Wodeyars
Alamelamma must have really hated Raja Wodeyar of Mysore Kingdom to have cursed him not once, but three times. At that time the Raja—the ninth ruler of the Wodeyar dynasty—and his forces had routed her husband’s army and forced them to abandon their base in Srirangapatna. The defeated couple fled to Talakad, a temple town near Mysore, where Alamelamma brought a set of precious jewels that she used to regularly adorn a statue of her patron deity. The Raja sent his men to pursue her with the intent of confiscating the precious jewels. To avoid capture, she took the jewels and committed suicide by jumping into the Cauvery River.
Just before her death, she pronounced a three-part curse wherein Talakad would become a desert and the nearby town of and Malangi would become a whirlpool area, while the Wodeyars would have no offspring. While present skeptics have been quick to dismiss the first two curses as the result of environmental changes, the third one has continued to confound them—for the past 400 years, the Wodeyars only had male children in every other generation, leading to very problematic issues regarding succession to the throne. But hey, that’s better than having no kids at all, right?
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