Adi Jambava

Adi Jambava, are artisan caste working on tanner, carpenter , blacksmith.... They claim to be the descendants of Jambavantha. This hilly mountain tribe worships Rama, Adi Parashakti, Shiva, Matangi and Maramma[1] and, as remembrance of Jambavanthas, they grow long beards and hair, wear ochre turbans, wear ashes and a horizontal shape on their foreheads known as Addagandha.[2]

In Karnataka they are a subcaste of aid Karnataka & Andra Telangana they are a subcaste madiga

They are also related to Vishwa Jambhava, Adi Brahmana, Padmajatiyavaru, Matanga, chamar, samgar and Maadiga,[1] is a tribe and related to Madiga[3] found in Karnataka state, India.[4] They are referred to as Harijans.[5][6] The government of Karnataka has also launched a Separate Corporation Called Karnataka Adi Jambava Development Corporation for the uplift of the Adi Jambava community. https://adijambava.karnataka.gov.in/

Puranic reference "Krishna's youngest wife was Jamabava's daughter jambavathi. Had youngest son Samba. He marries Duryodhana, daughter. Upset with Krishna's Kurukshetra war becomes a drunkard and leaves Yadava & outcaste. His kids are called Jambava from mother Jambavati".

The descendants of have suffix Matanga muni. Since Jambavata originally lived on Matanga Hill.

See also

References
  1. Karnataka State Gazetteer - Mysore. 1988. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  2. L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (1928). The Mysore Tribes and Castes. Mittal Publications. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  3. Census of India, 1971: D. Migration tables (2 v.). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 1971. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  4. Singh, Nagendra Kr. Global Encyclopaedia of the South Indian Dalit's (3 Vols. Set). Global Vision Publishing. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  5. Fuchs, Stephen (1981). At the bottom of Indian society: the Harijan and other low castes. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 212.
  6. Memoir, Issue 18 Anthropological Survey of India, 1973, page 194
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