It is due to the fact that when they left Mysore to escape from the King (Thipu Sultan ?) in the night in a hurry, they had forgotten the baby which was sleeping in the cradle,each thinking that the other person wiould pick up the child.
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The reason for not using cradles for babies is a story by itself.
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There are several dialects, only the most conservative having the complete set of contrasts illustrated here. The cultural and historical inter-relations between these countries are naturally of. Heddakku (Back of the skull) – usually Badagas have a long heddakku as they donot use cradles. says Badaga is a Southern Dravidian Language (Tamil-Kannada branch) spoken by approximately 250,000NOW ABOUT 500,000 people in the Nilgiris hills in Southern India. Badaga Language Did it predate Kannada OF the countries which make up the southern portion of India it is well-known that those in which Tamil, Telugu and Kanarese are spoken are the countries which may boast of an ancient culture and a memorable past.Badagas - Wikipedia In the 1930s the Dravidian language Badaga had two degrees of rhoticity among all five of its vowels, but few speakers maintain the distinction today, and then only in one or two vowels. Enough work has been done by the writer on this one dialect of Badaga to permit a short treatment of phonology and especially of the vowels. The Badaga language is spoken by the Badaga community. Mande (Head) – also refers to Hair though there is specific word – Orama The Badaga language is said by speakers of it to have different dialects, but no work has been done except on that spoken in the neighborhood of Kateri.