Alamelamma's curse to Mysore kings

"Talakadu maralagali malangi maduvagali, mysuru doregalige makkalillade hogali"
" may the city if talakadu turn into sand, may the town of malangi turn into a whirlpool, may the rajas of Mysore not have children for eternity"
This was the legendary curse uttered by Alamelamma before she leapt to death by jumping off a cliff into the whirlpools of river kaveri at Talakadu.

The story of the curse unfolds like this:

There was a guy called tirumala ho died of a disease called " disease of the kings". His wife Alamelamma owned a lot of jewellery. As a widow, she had no further use of these jewellery so she donated them to the temple of Sri Ranganayaki. Every Friday and tuesday, the statue of goddess was decorated with those jewellery and on other days they were kept in Alamelamma's safe. The temple authorities requested raja wodeyar to give them the custody of jewels so Raja Wodeyar sent a couple of army to  seize  those jewels from Alamelamma. She got really pissed and uttered those terrible words and jumped into river kaveri at talakadu.

Effects of curse:

1. The city of Talakadu was completely buried under sand and was abandoned by its residents. Even today the temple lie buried under sand and are dug and exposed every twelve years.
   
2. At Malangi, the river turns extremely vigorous and whirlpools are a common sight.
3. Every alternate generation of Wodeyars have had a problem with heirs ,
   
   the current king Yaduveer krishnadatta chamaraja Wadiyar was adopted by srikantadatta Wadiyar who had problem with heirs. On November 20, 2015, Yaduveer was titled the new maharaja of Mysuru.

Plausible logical explanation to all these effects of the curse as investigated by Historians , Geologists, Archeologists and Scientists:

1. In 1336, Madhava mantri, a minister from vijayanagara Empire built an anekattu, a dam across the river just about Talakaaadu. This dam is likely to dry up the river path exposing the sand banks of the river. And Talakadu receives strong winds from the northwest and the Southwest which could move sand particles towards Talakadu.
   
   
   Thus the sand covering the town of Talakadu is a consequence of the movement of the movement of the particles from the river  and over  the 18 century, the city was slowly abandoned by its residents due to accumulation of sand.
   
2. Geologists have demonstrated that there is an active fault running along the path of the river which made the river kaveri shift its course. Also, the river takes sharp turn at Malangi and the water is quite deep resulting in the vigorous torrents and formation of whirlpools. 
   
   
3. This is probably one of the most speculated question of all time. The first two could be geological reasons but how the hell do you explain the lack of heirs in the Royal family, given that none of the previous rajas were impotent?  Well, its genetics. Wodeyars married within their urs community. There were only about a dozen of "well bred" inter- married urs families from which all the spouses of the Wodeyar family came from. This may have caused something called inbreeding depression".
   
   Only 10 out of 19 rulers didn't have heirs. All the adopted rulers had heirs but their second generation did not, because of this "inbreeding depression". But as of now so many kings have married princess belonging to Gujarat and Rajasthan, currently on 27 June 2016 Yaduveer Krishnadatta chamaraja Wadiyar is married to Trishika kumari Devi, who hails from the royal family of Rajkot, Rajasthan.

All the Mysurians are hoping and praying in this concern that Alamelamma's curse come to an end and the Wodeyar's family cherish in prosperity and Happiness, as the Wodeyar dynasty had highly contributed to the development of Mysuru.