Adi Jambava, reportedly also known as Padmajatiyavaru, Matangas and Begaras, is a tribe and madigafound in Karnataka state, India. They are a low caste and are referred to as Harijans. They believed to be descendants of Jambavantha. This hilly mountain tribe worship Adi Parashakti, Shiva, Matangi and Maramma and, as remembrance of Jambavanthas, they grow long beards and hair, wear ochre turbans, wear ashes and a horizontal shape on their foreheads known as addagandha.