Guest guest Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Centuries pass......And a brilliant young man from Kerala ison a tour of the entire length and breadth of India............on foot. Eversensitive to places with an excess of divine energy, the youthful AdiShankara is stunned by what he experiences at Kollur where just the divinerock exists at the time. During his soujourn there,the Divine Mothermanifests herself in his dreams complete with four hands and a strikinglyattractive face and demeanor and asks him to build an idol of Hers just asShe appeared before him, for the benefit of those devotees who would findthe idea of worshipping a mere rock, however divine, simply too abstract aconcept to put effectively into practice. And he does so, giving us thissupremely exquisite idol which still stands, smiling benignly on us, Herchildren. Further, he sets about organising the various rituals and PoojaVidhis of the temple which also continue mostly unchanged to this day. The temple itself was constructed by the Samantha ruler Venkanna,nephew of Sankanna several centuries ago. Though the devotees arestruck dumb...rendered Mooka, so to speak....by the beauty of the idol, thereal power however, lies in the divine rock which gleams quietly and darklyin front. This rock is divided into two by a golden line. The left siderepresents Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and the right side, Saraswathi, Lakshmiand Durga. The rear end of the left side has a Go Padam (Cow's Foot) and the right side a Scar sustained by Shiva on his forehead during his battle withArjuna in the form of Kiratha. This scar, in turn, is called Paartha Praharam. The Shri Mookambika Temple is one of the Eighteen Great Devi Temples or Shakthi Peetams of the world, with the Shankari temple at Sri Lanka, the Madhavi temple at Gaya, the Bhadrakali temple at Gokarnam and the Vishalakshi templeat Kaasi being some of the others. An extremely powerful Shri Chakra was taken from this temple to Mysore by the ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar and established in the celebrated Nimishamba temple.Speaking ofwhich, brings us to the story of the Tiger from Mysore, Tippu Sultan's celebrated visit to the Shri Mookambika Temple. Tippu was travelling all over South India, systematically plundering Hindu temples. But when he reached the Mookambika temple he was so moved by the divine atmosphere there that he gave some money as an endowment and left the Goddess unmolested. In fact, as he offered his respects in the Muslim way during the evening Pooja, the evening Pooja came to be known as "Salaam"....and many old timers still refer to the evening Pooja as Salaam! The History was composed by shree Rama Varma. Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Dear Ms Babithaji, Great work !! Good narration on History of Mookambika Temple. Eagerly waiting for the next mails. With Best Wishes, Rajasekhar K G On Behalf Of Babitha VasanthSunday, December 09, 2007 9:43 AMMookambika History - Part Two Centuries pass......And a brilliant young man from Kerala ison a tour of the entire length and breadth of India............on foot. Eversensitive to places with an excess of divine energy, the youthful AdiShankara is stunned by what he experiences at Kollur where just the divinerock exists at the time. During his soujourn there,the Divine Mothermanifests herself in his dreams complete with four hands and a strikinglyattractive face and demeanor and asks him to build an idol of Hers just asShe appeared before him, for the benefit of those devotees who would findthe idea of worshipping a mere rock, however divine, simply too abstract aconcept to put effectively into practice. And he does so, giving us thissupremely exquisite idol which still stands, smiling benignly on us, Herchildren. Further, he sets about organising the various rituals and PoojaVidhis of the temple which also continue mostly unchanged to this day. The temple itself was constructed by the Samantha ruler Venkanna,nephew of Sankanna several centuries ago. Though the devotees arestruck dumb...rendered Mooka, so to speak....by the beauty of the idol, thereal power however, lies in the divine rock which gleams quietly and darklyin front. This rock is divided into two by a golden line. The left siderepresents Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and the right side, Saraswathi, Lakshmiand Durga. The rear end of the left side has a Go Padam (Cow's Foot) and the right side a Scar sustained by Shiva on his forehead during his battle withArjuna in the form of Kiratha. This scar, in turn, is called Paartha Praharam. The Shri Mookambika Temple is one of the Eighteen Great Devi Temples or Shakthi Peetams of the world, with the Shankari temple at Sri Lanka, the Madhavi temple at Gaya, the Bhadrakali temple at Gokarnam and the Vishalakshi templeat Kaasi being some of the others. An extremely powerful Shri Chakra was taken from this temple to Mysore by the ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar and established in the celebrated Nimishamba temple.Speaking ofwhich, brings us to the story of the Tiger from Mysore, Tippu Sultan's celebrated visit to the Shri Mookambika Temple. Tippu was travelling all over South India, systematically plundering Hindu temples. But when he reached the Mookambika temple he was so moved by the divine atmosphere there that he gave some money as an endowment and left the Goddess unmolested. In fact, as he offered his respects in the Muslim way during the evening Pooja, the evening Pooja came to be known as "Salaam"....and many old timers still refer to the evening Pooja as Salaam! The History was composed by shree Rama Varma. Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Namasthe Ms. Babithaji, It is amazing narration of the history of Kollur, I it highly appreciated and anticipates more information. I would like to add now to fill a small gap in the history cannot place it well. Kollur hundreds of years in the past was a city which housed about 100,000 thousand families. The existence of this past civilization is evident from ruins of foundations and well etc can be found midst of the jungle surrounding area of Sir Mookambika temple. Some of the trees in this jungle is more than 100’s of years old with variety of plant species, different animals, insects one of the endangered animal specie which is protected here is lion tailed Macaque inside this jungle. This among other animals are now protected by proclaiming the surrounding kollur area as Wild life sanctuary and notifying it as Central Reserve Forest and aided by World Wild Life Fund there are special arrangement for monitoring and protecting these wild animals by Wild life -forest department. This natural forest also is home for a kind of tribal’s called Kudubis and has small pockets of settlement inside this jungle. These people are said to have migrated from Maratha region as times of disturbances there in the past. I can’t remember it clearly as it is been more than 18 years that I have lost contact with these people. I used to go up to their settlement with a team as a part of literacy drive. It was through them that I got confirmation as to the evidence of ruins of dwellings inside the jungle to authenticate the story of Kollur was once a city. The story however is that the city was abandoned by people because of disease once that plagued this prosperous city. It was at this time that temple started to give medicine to the community close to temple. This was done every day as a ritual and herbs from the forest was used in preparing a concoction called kashayam and is termed as kashaya theertham and this is even to day followed after the last pooja vidhi at the temple. PranamBabitha Vasanth <babitha70 wrote: Centuries pass......And a brilliant young man from Kerala ison a tour of the entire length and breadth of India............on foot. Eversensitive to places with an excess of divine energy, the youthful AdiShankara is stunned by what he experiences at Kollur where just the divinerock exists at the time. During his soujourn there,the Divine Mothermanifests herself in his dreams complete with four hands and a strikinglyattractive face and demeanor and asks him to build an idol of Hers just asShe appeared before him, for the benefit of those devotees who would findthe idea of worshipping a mere rock, however divine, simply too abstract aconcept to put effectively into practice. And he does so, giving us thissupremely exquisite idol which still stands, smiling benignly on us, Herchildren. Further, he sets about organising the various rituals and PoojaVidhis of the temple which also continue mostly unchanged to this day. The temple itself was constructed by the Samantha ruler Venkanna,nephew of Sankanna several centuries ago. Though the devotees arestruck dumb...rendered Mooka, so to speak....by the beauty of the idol, thereal power however, lies in the divine rock which gleams quietly and darklyin front. This rock is divided into two by a golden line. The left siderepresents Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and the right side, Saraswathi, Lakshmiand Durga. The rear end of the left side has a Go Padam (Cow's Foot) and the right side a Scar sustained by Shiva on his forehead during his battle withArjuna in the form of Kiratha. This scar, in turn, is called Paartha Praharam. The Shri Mookambika Temple is one of the Eighteen Great Devi Temples or Shakthi Peetams of the world, with the Shankari temple at Sri Lanka, the Madhavi temple at Gaya, the Bhadrakali temple at Gokarnam and the Vishalakshi templeat Kaasi being some of the others. An extremely powerful Shri Chakra was taken from this temple to Mysore by the ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar and established in the celebrated Nimishamba temple.Speaking ofwhich, brings us to the story of the Tiger from Mysore, Tippu Sultan's celebrated visit to the Shri Mookambika Temple. Tippu was travelling all over South India, systematically plundering Hindu temples. But when he reached the Mookambika temple he was so moved by the divine atmosphere there that he gave some money as an endowment and left the Goddess unmolested. In fact, as he offered his respects in the Muslim way during the evening Pooja, the evening Pooja came to be known as "Salaam"....and many old timers still refer to the evening Pooja as Salaam! The History was composed by shree Rama Varma. Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Namaste, My Gratitude to all who have shared their life at Kollur, it is actually nice to read emails coming from our Heart which is shared to others.... As the below email I do remember the Kashayam the pundent and sweet taste of the same, all the Bhakthas used to bring small container for the same. As my Father inlaw knew the Shanthee there , we always used to get a bit more, the Kids Devika and Deepika used to enjoy it as much as the ThiruMadiram Prasadam as well. Ther is one more request that I have for the group, we should Plan a trip to Kollur together in the following Year during August 2008.If we would all approve then we can also make arrangement reagrding our stay etc. Pranam, Babitha , pradeep kumar <pradeepkumar1958 wrote: > > Namasthe > Ms. Babithaji, > > It is amazing narration of the history of Kollur, I it highly appreciated and anticipates more information. > > I would like to add now to fill a small gap in the history cannot place it well. > > Kollur hundreds of years in the past was a city which housed about 100,000 thousand families. The existence of this past civilization is evident from ruins of foundations and well etc can be found midst of the jungle surrounding area of Sir Mookambika temple. Some of the trees in this jungle is more than 100's of years old with variety of plant species, different animals, insects one of the endangered animal specie which is protected here is lion tailed Macaque inside this jungle. This among other animals are now protected by proclaiming the surrounding kollur area as Wild life sanctuary and notifying it as Central Reserve Forest and aided by World Wild Life Fund there are special arrangement for monitoring and protecting these wild animals by Wild life -forest department. This natural forest also is home for a kind of tribal's called Kudubis and has small pockets of settlement inside this jungle. These people are said to have migrated from Maratha region as times of > disturbances there in the past. I can't remember it clearly as it is been more than 18 years that I have lost contact with these people. I used to go up to their settlement with a team as a part of literacy drive. It was through them that I got confirmation as to the evidence of ruins of dwellings inside the jungle to authenticate the story of Kollur was once a city. > The story however is that the city was abandoned by people because of disease once that plagued this prosperous city. It was at this time that temple started to give medicine to the community close to temple. This was done every day as a ritual and herbs from the forest was used in preparing a concoction called kashayam and is termed as kashaya theertham and this is even to day followed after the last pooja vidhi at the temple. > > Pranam > > Babitha Vasanth <babitha70 wrote: Centuries pass......And a brilliant young man from Kerala is > on a tour of the entire length and breadth of India............on foot. Ever > sensitive to places with an excess of divine energy, the youthful Adi > Shankara is stunned by what he experiences at Kollur where just the divine > rock exists at the time. During his soujourn there,the Divine Mother > manifests herself in his dreams complete with four hands and a strikingly > attractive face and demeanor and asks him to build an idol of Hers just as > She appeared before him, for the benefit of those devotees who would find > the idea of worshipping a mere rock, however divine, simply too abstract a > concept to put effectively into practice. And he does so, giving us this > supremely exquisite idol which still stands, smiling benignly on us, Her > children. Further, he sets about organising the various rituals and Pooja > Vidhis of the temple which also continue mostly unchanged to this day. > > The temple itself was constructed by the Samantha ruler Venkanna,nephew of Sankanna several centuries ago. Though the devotees are > struck dumb...rendered Mooka, so to speak....by the beauty of the idol, the > real power however, lies in the divine rock which gleams quietly and darkly > in front. This rock is divided into two by a golden line. The left side > represents Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and the right side, Saraswathi, Lakshmi > and Durga. The rear end of the left side has a Go Padam (Cow's Foot) and the right side a Scar sustained by Shiva on his forehead during his battle with > Arjuna in the form of Kiratha. This scar, in turn, is called Paartha Praharam. > > The Shri Mookambika Temple is one of the Eighteen Great Devi Temples or Shakthi Peetams of the world, with the Shankari temple at Sri Lanka, the Madhavi temple at Gaya, the Bhadrakali temple at Gokarnam and the Vishalakshi templeat Kaasi being some of the others. An extremely powerful Shri Chakra was taken from this temple to Mysore by the ruler Krishnaraja Wodeyar and established in the celebrated Nimishamba temple.Speaking of > which, brings us to the story of the Tiger from Mysore, Tippu Sultan's celebrated visit to the Shri Mookambika Temple. Tippu was travelling all over South India, systematically plundering Hindu temples. But when he reached the Mookambika temple he was so moved by the divine atmosphere there that he gave some money as an endowment and left the Goddess unmolested. In fact, as he offered his respects in the Muslim way during the evening Pooja, the evening Pooja came to be known as " Salaam " ....and many old timers still refer to the evening Pooja as Salaam! > > The History was composed by shree Rama Varma. > > > > > > > > Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. > > > > > > Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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