sentences:  Priests of this temple belong to the Shivalli Brahmin community
  
  Madhur temple was originally Madanantheswara (Shiva) Temple and as the lore goes, an old women called Madaru from local Tulu Moger Community discovered an "Udbhava Murthy" (a statue that was not made by a human) of shiva linga.Initially, the Ganapathy picture was drawn by a boy, on the southern wall of the Garbhagriha(sanctum sanctorum) while playing.Day by day it became big and fat; so that the boy called Ganapathi as "boddajja" or "bodda ganesha".