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Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is the second cause of permanent, long-term disability in the world. It is one of the world's most disabling and disfiguring disease. Filariasis, though not fatal, is an important public health problem. It prevents the afflicted from experiencing a normal working and social life, resulting in matrimonial handicap, inferiority of self, and furthering the cycle of poverty. It affects 750 million every year and in India, 450million people are at risk. Lymphatic filariasis has been identified as one of the only six diseases, which could be targeted for elimination/eradication based on considerations that human beings are the only reservoir of infection. The WHO has now called for targeting filariasis elimination by 2020. India is the largest LF endemic country and has targeted elimination by 2015. non-experimental descriptive design to assess the rural knowledge on their management of filariasis among adults. The sample for the study was 90 adults residing at selected rural communities of Sulekere P.H.C. Then house to house survey was done and found the mothers of toddlers as 8o in Sulekere, 82 in Ramsandra and 86 in Kenchanpura. The sample was selected by using simple random technique. The samples obtained were 23+37+30= 90 from the respective villages. The present study represents the Mean, S.D. and Mean percentage of aspects of knowledge on their practices of mothers of toddler. It reveals that the subjects had a maximum mean of 5.37 with a standard deviation of 0.97 and the minimum mean of 1.60 with the S.D. of 0.63 and mean percentage of 80.0% for foreign body aspiration, the mean score of 2.13 with a S.D.0.57 and mean percentage of 71% regarding cut and laceration, the mean score of 3.82 with S.D of 1.02 and mean percentage of 76.4% regarding burns, scalds and the mean of 2.52 with S.D. of 0.64 and mean parentage of 84.0% regarding drowning., the mean score of 3.24 with a S.D. of 0.78 and mean percentage of .81% regarding stings and bites, the mean score of 2.44 with a S.D. of 0.67 and mean percentage of 81.3% regarding electric shock.