thoo nilA muRRam - part 9 - KumbakONam

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thoo nilA muRRam - part 9 - KumbakONam

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

Many millions of years ago, it was the time for the

praLayam in the cyclic kalpam. Lord Sriman nArAyaNA ordered Lord

Sri brahma to do certain kainkaryams. One of the most important was

that Lord BrahmA should first make a pot using the wet sand from

thiru chERai. The wet sand was first mixed with amirtham and the

raw sand was made into a pasty form. Using this mixture, Lord Sri

BrahamA was asked to creat a pot. The pot was molded thus Sri

BrahmA. Sri brahmA was asked to fill in some portions of the pot

with the amirtham itself.

 

The "gene" that is the cause for all creations was kept in

the centre. All the vEdas were kept surrounding this gene. This pot

was closed tightly. This most precious pot was kept on top of the

"hub" of the entire universe namely the "mEru parvatham". It was on

the "ucchi" or on top most point of mEru parvatham. Then, after

several years praLayam took place. The great floods was covering

the entire universe and was consuming anything that was seen or on

its path. The mEru itself submerged and the holy pot started to

float. The holy pot didnot get affected in anyway due to this

praLaya veLLam. The holy pot or kudam slowly drifted and drifted

and it reached the chOla dEsam. As the floods receded after the

praLayam the kudam or the pot descended down into the poRRamaRai

tank.

 

After many years when dEvAs pleaded to Sri ArA amuthan the

amirtha kudam revealed itself by oozing out through its nose. The

outflow of amitham was in such awy that the whole univesre was wet,

due to this overflowing of amirtham from poRRAmaRai tank. Since

this "kumbam" oozed out amirtham through its nose, in sanskrit it

is known as kumba kOanm (*) and in tamil it is known as "kuda

mookku" or kudanthai. It is presended in the kumbakOana mahAthmiyam

as follows.

 

"kumbasya koNathO yasmin soothApooram vinisrutham

thasmAtthu thath patham lOkE kumbakOnam vathanthihi"

12th chapter, 1st slokam.

 

This core part of the city is now close to atleast an

approximate area of 8 square miles.

 

Sri kOmaLa vaLLi thAyAr samEtha Sri ArA amudhan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

(*) - In 60's when there was an movement against use of all hindi letters in

tamilnadu state and caste names as well. The names that were written hindi

letters in all the public places and railway stations were darakened with a

black coat as mark of protest. Ever since many sanskrit or vada mozhi names

were changed to tamil equivalent.

 

Howvever, for some reason even untill today this name kumbakonam

is being considered as a tamil equivalent not as sanskrit original.

Hence this name is still the name of this city. However, many tamil

magazines and newpapers address this city as "kudanthai" in pure

tamil. Pure tamil form of kumbakonam as considered by many tamil

scholars is "kuda mookku".

 

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