KINGDOM OF SITHTHARS

Three years back, we all were excited and talking about the treasure taken out from the Padmanaba Sswami temple of Trivandrum, Kerala. Considering this as the chance, many people put forth their idea of locating the treasure in temples of Tamil nadu also.

Is there any treasure in temples of Tamilnadu? May or may not be present right! However, the mere thought of treasure itself induce our excitation. That too, finding the hidden treasure of our ancestor is really an adventurous one right?

In the olden days, Saiva and Vainava are the two glorious religion spreaded all over Tamilnadu. However, Jainism and Buddhism formed in between and faded away. The rise and fall of one religion mainly depends upon the ruling kings of that period. Even, kings show their power and prestigious pride in building temples. In this sense, we can see the comparatively big temples were built by son to overcome their father’s glory.

Even, kings hide their valuable treasure in the underground room in temple during the war period and the king who won the war, will search for treasure in temples and ravage it. With the joy of having ravaged treasure, the culture of presenting his own treasure to that temple itself is commonly practiced.

As the locations of those treasures were kept secret, it becomes hidden and forgotten as time passes. However, merely hearing the story of treasure which is under the security of bootham* may be interesting leaving the truth behind.

Now a days, we decoded the information regarding the treasure through the palm leaves (suvadi) and the sculptures, unfortunately no one is interested to verify this. The treasure taken out from the “Padmanaba Swami temple ” is also decoded form the books. Similarly, everyone started out with their guesses and evidences of treasure location in Tamilnadu. As a result, rather than the glory of god, interest on hidden treasure becomes predominant among the people..

The famous archaeologist from Tamilnadu, Kudavaayil Balasubramaniyan, sent his guess and idea regarding the treasure location. In particular he  quoted Thiruvaaroor Thiyagaraja Swamy temple and Srirangam Aranganaathar temple, with respect to his archaeological evidences,. He also enclosed the evidences in his writings to government and the verification of these evidences is in hand of the government.

Readers may get the doubt regarding the relevancy of this blog and treasure locating things. Right?

Of course there is relevance!

Siththar Agathiyar also quoted the location of treasure in Srirangam Ranganathar temple in his poem and the relevant information is likely to be discussed in the upcoming post.

Will catch you up in the next post. Stay tuned!

*Bootham – goblin, demon, a malignant spirit described as dwarfish with huge pot-belly and very small legs

Original – www.siththarkal.com

Translated by Lalithambika Rajasekaran

The treasure taken out from the “Padmanaba swami temple” of Trivandrum, Kerala has gained the attention of over all people from the World. However, similar information is available in Siththar’s poems too, which I palnned to share from today.

 But...

Thiru. Vaanavan yogi putforth his adimration as well as criticization on the original Tamil post concerning Pancha Paashaana Lingam. Although, I answered him in that comment column itself, I thought it is necessary to give clarification in this regard with respect to his certain criticized comments.

He stated that, “only the ignorant fellows will tell that, Nava Baashaanam is combination of nine  paashaanam” in the comment column.

Despite of the pandits knowledge of Nava Paashaanam, let us see the enlightening view of Siththars, who born among the normal people and attained this eternal state. All the information shared here are collected from following books; Bogar Nikandu, Bogar Vaithiya Kaaviyam, Bogar 7000 and Pulipaani Poojavithi 116.

In the following poem, Bogar stated the reason of Nava Paashaanam making to his student Pulipaani Siththar;

மண்ணான தேகமது இருந்துமென்ன

mannaana thaekamathu irunthumenna

மகிதலத்தில் நெடுங்காலம் வாழ்ந்துமென்ன

makithalaththil nedungaalam vaaznthumenna

வண்ணமுடன் கலியுகத்தில் அனியாயங்கள்

vannamudan kaliyukaththil aniyaayangal

வாகுடனே சதாகாலம் நடக்கும்பாரு

vaakudanae sathaakaalam nadakkumpaaru

நடக்கவே கலியுகத்தார் பிழைக்கவேண்டி

nadakkavae kaliyukaththaar pizaikkavaendi

நாமான மனோன்மணியாள் கிருபையாலே

naamaana manoanmaniyaal kirupaiyaalae

உள்ளபடி பாடாணம் ஒன்பதும்தான்

ullapadi paadaanam onpathumthaan

உருக்கிச் சாய்த்தேன் சிலையாய்தானே

urukkich saaiththaen silaiyaaiththaanae.

- போகர் (Bogar)

As, most of the happenings are going to be impious in this Kali yugam, and it is no use for human body to live long in the Earth. Bogar prepared statue made up of nine baashaanam with the blessing from goddess Manoanmani, for the survival of people.  Here, the specified nine paashaanam referring to what? I left it to reader’s view.

Let us see the another poem of Pulipaani Siththar:

பாரப்பா மலையதுவின் உச்சியிலே

paarappaa malaiyathuvin uchchiyilae

பாங்கான போகருட சமாதியருகே

paangaana Bogaruda samaathiyarukae

கட்டான பாடாணவகை எட்டுடனொன்று

kattaana paadaanavakai ettudanonru

காணவே சேர்த்துவார்த்த சிலைதானும்

kaanavae saerththuvaartha silaithaaanum

நண்ணவே பிரதிட்டைதான் செய்து

nannavae pirathittaithaan seithu

நவிலுவேன் பூசைசோ டசமுஞ்செய்ய

naviluvaen poosaisoae dasamunjeyya

ஆற்றினேன் பூசைவிதிகள் தானும்

aatrinaen poosaivithikal thaanum

ஆரப்பா அறிவார்க ளாருமில்லை.

aarappaa arivaarka laarumillai.

- புலிப்பாணிச் சித்தர் ( Pulippaani Siththar)

Pulipaani says that the statue made up combination of eight paashanam and one other form is positioned nearby the Bogar samadhi on the tip of hill. And he continues that no one is capable of performing pooja for that statue and henceforth Pulipaani sithar sharing information regarding the pooja procedure and rules to perform it. Here, the specified nine paashaanam refers to what? I left it to reader’s view.

Let us see the another poem given by Bogar; 

"பாங்கான பாடாணம் ஒன்பதினும்

paangaana paadaanam onpathinum

பரிவான விபரம்தான் சொல்லக் கேளு

parivaana viparamthaan sollak kaelu

கௌரி கெந்திச்சீலைமால் தேவி

gowri kenthicheelaimaal devi

கொடு வீரம்கச்சால் வெள்ளை

kodu veeramkachhaal vellai

பகர்கின்ற தொட்டினொடு சூதம்சங்கு

pakarkinra thottinodu soothamsangu

பூரணமாய் நிறைந்த சிவசக்தி

pooranamaai niraintha sivasakthi

நலமான மனோம்மணி கடாட்சதாலே

nalamaana manoanmani kadaatchaththaalae

நண்ணிநீ ஒன்பதையும் கட்டுகட்டு

nanninee onpathaiyum kattukattu”

- போகர்  (Bogar)

Bogar listed the nine paashaanam as gowri paashaanam, kenthakap paashaanam, seelaip paashaanam, veerap paashaanam, kachaalap paashaanam, vellaip paashaanm, thottip paashaanam, soothap paashaanam, sangup paashaanam and one should bundle up the combination of above nine with the blessings and permission from the Siva Sakthi and goddess Manoanmani. How to call the above nine combiantion? I left it to your choice.

Still I can show some poems as example. However, this post is just the outcome of the commented statement “ignorant people” and nothing beyond that. Kindly do not misunderstand the post.

Further, I would like to thank Thiru. Vaanavan yogi for making this chance to verify about paashanams and I dedicate this post to him.

Original – www.siththarkal.com

Translated by Lalithambika Rajasekaran

In the previous post, we have seen the purification process of paashaanam. As this is the tedious stage and one can easily proceed with the further steps if succeeded in this purification process. However, the major loss in weight of each paashaanam during purification cannot be controlled. As the total weight before purification is 500 grams where, the total weight comes around 300 grams after purification which is further used for bundling process.

Now the next step is obtaining kuzhambu* from the purified baashaanam. Modern chemistry gives two ways for liquefying the solid substance. One is melting and another one is dissolving the solid in liquid medium to obtain solution.

While Bogar quoted the following method to obtain the solution from paashaanam;

"கண்டுபார் பாடாணக் குழம்பதனை

kandupaar paadaanak kuzhampathanai

கனமான சதுரக்கள் ளிப்பாலிற்போட்டு

kanamaana sathurakkal lippaalirpoattu

விண்டுபார் சாமந்தான் மூடிவைக்க

vindupaar saamanthaan moodivaikka

விடுபட்ட சுத்தசலம் போலேயாகும்

vidupatta suththasalam poalaeyaakum

கொண்டுபார் சிறப்பான பாடாணந்தான்

kondupaar sirappaana paadaananthaan

கொடிதான அயச்சட்டிக் குள்ளேவைத்து

kodithaana ayachchattik kullaevaiththu

மண்டுபார் நாற்சாமம் சுருக்குப்போட

mandupaar naarsaamam surukkuppoada

மகத்தான பாடாணம் குழம்பாமே.

makaththaana paadaanam kuzhambaamae."

- போகர் (Bogar)

Placing the paashaanam in the square cactus milk and place it for a saamam* by closing it resulting in the liquefied paashaanam. Then, it is placed in iron container and by condensing it for 4 saamam. Finally, we will get the desired solution of paashaanam. 

I adopted above method to get the solution of 5 paashaanam individually. Then, after measuring the accurate weight, I took the equal amount in every 5 to get the desired solution kuzhambu.

Now the final process is pouring the solution in structured mould. I bought this mould from chetti street in Colombo - 11. It happened to be lot and lots of divine moulds there, for which I confused and finally bought mould of lord Shiva in linga form.

As I poured the mixture solution in mould and place it in sunlight (Surya pudam), it get hardened. Finally, the “Pancha Paashaana Lingam” is ready and can be seen in the below picture, which took 2 months to prepare. Eventhough the size is small; it contains unbounded glory with in it.

It can be placed in home for worshipping. However, if prepared in big size, it can be used in temple. Even though most of our temples principal statues are of this paashaana type, but the forgotten or hidden information fades the glory of the temples.

The belief of obtaining cure on worshipping specific lord in specific place is all due to this type of statues. The information like abisheka water, milk from the principal statue can cure the disease gets modified over time and becomes the culture and tradition nowadays which are also fading gradually.

In that series, we can worship the above “Pancha Paashaana Lingam” and can perform abishekam daily. Uroma rishi told that, the continuous intake of abisheka water stables the paralysis, bile and phlegm as it has plenteous medicinal property, there will not be occurrence of any disease and can live long.

Irrespective of gender, it can be worshipped by both male and female. Bogar told that,  placing the statue in pure and neat place and by chanting the mantra “Om Namasivaaya” , results in mind peace and focus.

*Saamam – 3 hours especially at midnight

*Kuzhambu – the liquid of thick consistency (such as sandal paste)

Original – www.siththarkal.com

Translated by Lalithambika Rajasekaran