If it is "Aadi", the fourth Tamil month - if you count from "Chitirai", the thing I associate with it is "Kool" - those old days are crystal clear like many other wonderful moments of school days.
The grandma story is: While Jamadhakni rishi, a devotee of Lord Shiva, was burnt, Renuka Devi - his wife also leaped upon the funeral pyre. Since the rain God, Varuna, drenched the fire with heavy rain, she was just burnt but alive. The people around there made her lay on a plantain leaf, neem leaves and gave her tender coconut, Kool - a porridge, butter milk, etc.
In fact, it works scientifically too. I mean, these food items are good for everyone in this month. "Aadi" begins with a season shift after the three hot months of summer. The season change creates a lot of 'heat' related diseases. The remedy for common disease like chickenpox, smallpox is the food consists of tender coconut...
It is Aadi 30 today (Aug 14, 2008) and it got two more days to go. One of the nicest things in this month is the colourful Gods standing near the road, made alive by the exquisitely decorated with 'serial light cutouts'. How artistically they do it with those little bamboo sticks!
Out of curiosity, I started counting them and amazed to find that there are 23 temples within about 10 kilometers. Some of them were small 'putthu's when I saw them last year. Now they are grown. The faster they grow the lesser the possibility of expanding the road between Pallikaranai and Medavakkam.
Kovil Pillai P.
The grandma story is: While Jamadhakni rishi, a devotee of Lord Shiva, was burnt, Renuka Devi - his wife also leaped upon the funeral pyre. Since the rain God, Varuna, drenched the fire with heavy rain, she was just burnt but alive. The people around there made her lay on a plantain leaf, neem leaves and gave her tender coconut, Kool - a porridge, butter milk, etc.
In fact, it works scientifically too. I mean, these food items are good for everyone in this month. "Aadi" begins with a season shift after the three hot months of summer. The season change creates a lot of 'heat' related diseases. The remedy for common disease like chickenpox, smallpox is the food consists of tender coconut...
It is Aadi 30 today (Aug 14, 2008) and it got two more days to go. One of the nicest things in this month is the colourful Gods standing near the road, made alive by the exquisitely decorated with 'serial light cutouts'. How artistically they do it with those little bamboo sticks!
Out of curiosity, I started counting them and amazed to find that there are 23 temples within about 10 kilometers. Some of them were small 'putthu's when I saw them last year. Now they are grown. The faster they grow the lesser the possibility of expanding the road between Pallikaranai and Medavakkam.
Kovil Pillai P.
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