Guest guest Posted June 11, 2003 Report Share Posted June 11, 2003 'Parijaatha' is one of the celestial flowers. It is a common practice to have mundane representations of such items. The fragrance of the paarijaatha would dispell all forms of diseases wherever it reaches. In the varalaaRu of AruNagiri naathar, there is an episode of a contest between AruNagiri and Sambandhaandaan. AruNagiri wins that competition by making Thiru Murugan appear in a pillar in the temple at ThiruvaNNaamalai. The brilliant light of His appearance blinded the king, Praputa DEva Raayan. He was enticed by Sambandhaandaan to tell AruNagiri to fetch the Paarijaatha malar from Paradise. This would restore the sight of the king. AruNagiri performed the 'kuudu vittu kuudu paaydhal' - 'para kaaya pravEsam' - siddhi and took the form of a parrot. Thus he went to the celestial regions and brought the Paarijaatham. In the meanwhile, Sambandhaandaan serached and destroyed AruNagiri's body. While AruNagiri was approaching ThiruvaNNaamalai, the fragrance reached the place. The king suddenly regained his sight and could see. AruNagiri perched upon the tower of the temple and dropped the celestial flower. Then he disclosed about the deed of Sambandhaandaan and thereafter flew to the hand of ThiruMurugan as he sang the 'Kandhar Anubhuuthi'. JayBee At 07:41 PM 6/11/03 +0000, you wrote: >, "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16> >wrote: > >> is Parijaata tree same as 'pavazhamalli' - when i was in delhi, my >> father had a tree in his garden called 'Raat ki Rani' ( or night >> queen ) - ths flowers on thhis tree were almost like jasmine >(white) > >Satish mentioned 'Erythrina indica' as Paarijaata in his initial >post. Google gave me ' Nyctanthes arbortristis' as Paarijaata. > >I think what we call as paarijaata ('Pavazamalli' in tamil) is >what 'Nyctanthes arbortristis' is. 'Erythrina indica' is Mandaara >vR^iksha, which is also another fragrant flower tree. > >http://www.mssrf.org/fris9809/fris1242.html >http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/acc_num/198500665.html > >Aravind > > > >-- >pradiipajvaalaabhirdivasakaraniiraajanavidhiH >sudhaasuuteshcandropalajalalavairarghyaracanaa . >svakiiyairambhobhiH salilanidhisauhityakaraNaM >tvadiiyaabhirvaagbhistava janani vaacaaM stutiriyam.h > >www : http://www.ambaa.org/ >Contact: help > >Your use of is subject to > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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