Mekku Nadu
Matrimony for families from Mel Odayaratti
Mel Odayaratti is a Badaga hatti in the Mekku Nadu seeme of the Nilgiri hills. Nanga Madhuvae lists it in the hatti reference and uses it to check ooru and seeme rules before a match is ever shown.
- Seeme
- Mekku Nadu
- Listed in the master list as
- Mel Odayaratti
- Position in Mekku Nadu
- 54 of 81
- Part of a Mel/Kil pair
- Kil Odayaratti
- Hattis in Mekku Nadu
- 81
The name carries a “mel” prefix. Across the Badaga hatti reference that prefix is never decoration: mel marks the senior or elder settlement and kil the younger one cut off from it, and the two are commonly one place across two generations rather than two unrelated villages.
Mel Odayaratti is the senior (mel) half of the Odayaratti pair recorded in Mekku Nadu. That matters at matchmaking time because families treat the pair as distinct villages for hatti purposes, even where the two settlements have grown into each other.
Hattis with a similar name
Villages named from the same stem are often related by migration or by a shared ancestor, which makes them a plausible place for a family connection to have come from.
Part of a Mel/Kil pair
Kil OdayarattiHattis with a similar name
What is Mel Odayaratti?
Mel Odayaratti is a Badaga hatti in the Mekku Nadu seeme of the Nilgiri hills. Nanga Madhuvae lists it in the hatti reference and uses it to check ooru and seeme rules before a match is ever shown.
Which seeme is Mel Odayaratti in?
Mel Odayaratti is a Badaga hatti in the Mekku Nadu seeme of the Nilgiri hills. Nanga Madhuvae lists it in the hatti reference and uses it to check ooru and seeme rules before a match is ever shown.
How does a hatti affect matchmaking?
Nanga Madhuvae checks hatti and ooru rules before a profile is ever shown, so a match that reaches you has already cleared the bloodline restrictions your family would apply.
Where this information comes from
The hatti list is compiled from the “Badaga Hattis by Seeme” master list, itself drawn from Nakku Betta magazine (late 1970s, ed. K.H. Madha Gowder) by Wg Cdr Bellie Jayaprakash, with community corrections layered on. Entries are still being validated with elders in the community, so a spelling or a seeme may yet be corrected. If you know this hatti better than this page does, we would rather hear from you.
Looking for a match from Mel Odayaratti?
Nanga Madhuvae checks hatti and ooru rules before a profile is ever shown, so a match that reaches you has already cleared the bloodline restrictions your family would apply.