Kulshekar is a locality in Mangalore city, Karnataka, India.^[1] It lies on national highway 13 which connects Mangalore to Chitradurga. It is nearly 5 km from Mangalore central railway station. This city was built by a Alpua king Kulshekara 1 according to the stone inscription found in Shree veeranarayana temple , kulshekara .This happens to be the oldest Tulu lipie writing found till date.