Tunga Sringeri MathaIn the Sankarite institution at Sringeri, on the bank of the Tunga (in Chickmagalur District, Karnataka), Srigin i.e. Malayala Brahman has a temple. According to available information he is propitiated before all festivals. On page 143 of the English Section of the Sringeri Souvenir-Smriti Kusumanjali of February 1963, the following information is given : “The Brahmarakshas, locally called Malayala Brahman. who is said to have accompanied Vidyaranya, has a shrine. He carries a mace. He is usually propitiated before the commencement of feasts in Sringeri”.The same piece of information is also found in the ‘Transcendental Throne of Wisdom’ (1953, Page 55.) by K. R. Venkataramier. The Annual Report of the (Archaeological) Survey of Mysore of 1916 has the following account (page 16) :-“On the site of the first and second houses in front of the new Matha (at Sringeri) are now containing figures of Rama, Lakshmana, Sita and Hanuman and built two small temples, one the other a figure known as Malayala Brahma. Though the temples are new, the figures in them are old There is however a curious story about the figure in the other temple. It is fairly a stout figure, about 4-1/2 feet high, wearing sandals and holding a mace in the right hand, the other hanging by the side. Malayala Brahma was a Brahmarakshasa .. .. whom Vidyaranya brought with him, with a promise that he would feed him to his heart’s content. Without propitiating him no entertainment or feast could be organised or successfully carried out at Sringeri even the oil or ghee intended for preparing eatables will refuse to boil. It appears that till recently there was a family at Sringeri, one of the members of which used to be possessed by this spirit every year In these unpropitious times however the spirit has become perfectly harmless but he is being worshipped all the same.”(Sri Vidyaranya, The Vidyaranya Vidya Pitha Trust, Hampi, Publication no.3, 1983)