In the songs of the Siththars there is information related to the time and the way of constructing house, constructing well, keeping the doors and entrances of the house. They say that initially the well has to be constructed and after that only the construction of house has to begin.
The construction of well is not so simple. It has to be constructed with the help of many persons. If water does not come in the well after so many struggles and efforts, then it will be a mere waste. Also there is a chance for the water to get dried up during the summer season. But for all these issues, the Siththars have told remedies by themselves.
If there is more green grasses in any part of the site, then we will get water at very less depth itself by digging there.
After we locate the water, how can we identify whether the water is good to use?
The Siththars answer it..
Grind the navadhaanyam* and sprinkle them on the place where we planned up for digging the well on the previous day. The next day we can observe the ants carrying them to some particular place. If we dig well at that place we will get pure water.
We have also found pure water. Now how can we identify that it won’t dry up in summer season?
The Siththars have answered that question also.
Make fence in the site where we want to dig well and let the cow graze in that field. Then if we observe them, they will sit in a cool place and swallow them. If they continue the same behavior of sitting the same place for next five days, then that is the place suitable for digging a well that do not dry up in summer too.
Isn’t this interesting??
Like this the Siththars gave given many other useful information in their songs. These have to be analyzed well and researches are to be done on them.
*Navadhaanyam - The nine kinds of grain namely wheat, paddy, redgram, greengram, bengalgram, beans, sesame, blackgram and horsegram.
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