GEJJAGONDANAGALLI
        
             Gejjagondanahalli is a village of moderate size situated to the north-west of Ajjampura at a distance of about four kilometers. For the villagers of Gejjagondanahalli, Ajjampura town is a nodal center for all their socio-economic and cultural activities. In turn, Ajjampura is a hobli headquarters of Tarikere taluk, Chikmagalur district. Ajjampura is well connected with railway and road network to practically all places in Karnataka. In a sense, Gejjagondanahalli could be considered as a satellite village of Ajjampura.

              name of the village was Gajagondanahalli, which literally means an ‘Elephant Trap’. With the passage of time, since the illiterate village folk could not pronounce the Sanskritic word ‘Gajagonda’, it became distorted and eventually it became Gejjagondanahalli. What is more, to be economical in pronunciation, most of the people now generally refer to the village as Gejgenalli and also as gghalli.       

Gejjagondanahalli has been built at a relatively low lying area, perhaps keeping in view the availability of water resources in the past. Since the soil is predominantly black loamy, water table was so high that during the rainy season people could fetch water from open wells in their backyards sitting at the brink without using any chord to draw water.

ETYMOLOGY        

             During 1940s, 1950s and up to 1970s, the rainfall used to be heavy to very heavy during south west monsoon season and the area in and around village used to be very slushy which would result in oozing of water like natural springs. In the distant past, the soil condition is said to be such that during the rainy season even an elephant could get stuck in the slushy mud of the village. Hence, it is said that the original