POOVENUUMCHOLLUVANGA… Dear friends, Whilereturning after submitting some papers in my Telecom office today afternoon, I came across a beautiful lake with full ofLotus flowers at Pallikkaranai. I have passed through this lake many times. Butno time it was so blooming with lotus as today. My thinking went about flowers.Nostalgic and realistic thinking about flowers and talks.
Flowerhas other meanings also depend on contests. Sincerely Gopala Krishnan 4-2-2013. Reposted after editing and updatinginformation. R. Gopala Krishnan. Members may decide whetherthis posting is to the level of standard 1 student. Sri Rajaram KrishnamoorthyIRS responded my postings are like of a standard 1 student. I challenge Sri Rajaram Krishnamoorthy IRS to make a postingabove this level if he has creativity. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 11-6-2021 1. Poovennum cholluvanga… My fatheroften used to say for different words meaning the same thing, sometimes with adifferent ascent by some people with anexample- “Poovennum cholluvanga, pushpamennum cholluvanga, pinnae ayyaruchonnamathiriyum cholluvanga.” We cansay as Poo, Pushpam or as the priest said meaning FLOWER. 2. Mallippoo iddali. MADURAIin Tamilnadu is famous for soft iddalis. A person normally consuming 4 numbers iddaliwould eat six without counting at Madurai. Afterwards only he would startcounting whether he is consumed more. In arecent betrothal function in a relative’s house a few iyers were talking. The talk was going onabout Madurai iddali among them since one of them was from Madurai - “Ennappairukku-Idlinga”. (What is available – Iddali). Madurai hotels might have iddaliavailable for more time in the morning for breakfast. One iyercommented - Madurai Malligaippoo iddali. One RAMBHAM IYER commented- But forthat ladies cannot adorn instead of jasmine flowers, iddali in the hair.However smile appeared in all person’s faces since he was VIP among them. In anearlier occasion a talk was going on about Mallippoo iddali of Madurai in aChennai function. One iyer commented- only if we are in Madurai for some cause,then only we can go for Malligaippoo iddali, for eating Mullappoo iddali onecannot go to Madurai. We have to satisfy with local iddali. I thought the talk would end there with anagreement since this too was slightrambham. There was another iyer who added- we (males)will take Mullappoo iddali at Madurai and enjoy. But I think our ladies maymostly eat just a small piece of IDDALI from our plate and order their favoriteCHAPPATHI. I really enjoyed this second comment. 3. Smelling flowers. Normallythis is a string of words used to mean, persons with distinguishing andappreciating character. Even I have used it in my postings. Everywhere we cansee smelling flowers distinguishing from normal flowers. They are lesser. YesterdayI had a work In State bank of India. I met the chief manager, processed thematter and he requested me to give operation Manger since no attendant available.I stood in the queue with the paper. Only one person before. Seeing the paper hesmiled and answered- I will do it leisurely in the evening. I just checked inthe night. It was done. There are smelling flowers with smile to customers. 4. Flowered. Floweredis a word used to mean a girl has started menstruation. In Tamilnadu villagesstill celebration is done about it. But in most towns and cities, it isconsidered as a usual phenomenon by parents. This is including iyers. “Pushpiniaayi” are the words in Malayalam to indicate the same. 5. Ppovo kaayo pazhamao? (Flower, raw or ripenedfruit?) This wayof talking is quite common in the context of interviews, asking for loans,seeing girls for marriage etc. Ppoo(flower) means hope, raw (kai) means somewhat settled and Pazham (fruit)meaning fully settled, gained or liked depend on the context. 6. Tulasippo and Lord Siva; We allknow thulasippo means the leaves of the plant Tulasi. The real flowers arethrown of and leaves are used as flowers. The vilva are MORE FAVOURED in Sivatemples. While I was writing about Siva temples, I wanted to write about Tulasiand chandanam given as prasadam in Siva temples. Tulasi and chandanam are NOTBARRED IN SIVA TEMPLES. Bhasmam and Vilwam are more preferred. Last weekwhen I was in Ernakulam Siva temple, the prasadam given was Chandanam andthulasi. 6a. Tulasi varieties KrishnaTulasi has dark green leaves. Rama Tulasi has green leaves, and Karppora Tulasihas still greener colour and grows wider. Karpoora thulasi has more liquidcontent comparing to the other two and still more smelling. However the plantis tenderer. Both RamaTulasi and Krishna Tulasi are used in temples; Karpoora Tulasi is not used inKerala temples. But in Tamilnadu it is used. Tulasi isthe only flower, which is permitted for RE-USING AFTER WASHING. This I have read throughnet. I thinkTulasi garlands are many times washed and resold near Perumal temples. They arepriced less on account of it, as felt by me. 6b. Flowers are attractive but not smelling. Manyflowers are not smelling but colourful. We can watch them for hours for theirappearance. Ambaratthi (Large size chembarathi) and different forms ofchembarathi in different colours, Kozhivalan flowers, Arali, Sankhu pushpam,Rajamalli etc. are examples. After a visit to Nilgiries I purchased a few crotons.One of them grows large climbing on wall and giving large yellow flowers. 7. Nalumanippo and anjumani ppo and Parijatham. Still I feelit a wonder, how the first two flower blossom in the time and Parijatham flowersin the midnight. While most flowers blossom in the morning, how these flowersalone are special. Similarly flowers like Nisa Gandhhi. Many times theParijatham smell in the front garden through closed windows to me in the frontroom. 8. Thetti and Asokam Whileboth these flowers are somewhat identical, how do the Asokam alone is grown ina tree? Thetti is a bush. Asokam has a friend- Konna, a must for Vishukkani. Konnagrows as tree. Incidentallykonna is used to mention indirectly beautiful teen girls/young women. 9. Flowers in Mythology. Everybodymay be recollecting the efforts of Sri Krishna to get Parijatham from LordIndra and planting in Sathyabhama’s garden and flowers falling in Rukmini’sgarden. Ravanaseated Seetha in the asoka garden after stealing her with the aid of Mareechaduring the forest life. Bhima wasASKED to get the Kalyana sougandhikam flower by Droupadi feeling he is thefittest to get it. This too in forestlife. In theSree Krishna Tulabharam, Rukminiplaced a single Tulasi leaf, to the kilos of gold ornaments kept bySathyabhama to equal the weight of Krishna. TheRasaleela was in the Vrindavan gardens with all smelling flowers. Probably whentold of Radha as “VrindavanathlaeRadha”, it was more amusing to hear it in Krishna legends. 10. Flower garlands. Theflower garlands has its beginning even before the CHURNING OF MILKY OCEAN.Churning ocean has its base- Cursing by sage DURVASA for not respecting the garlandgiven to INDRA by him – Indra putting it on the elephant and the elephanttearing it keeping under its feet, for the bees attacking it. 11. Beauty of flowers Either asgarland or as bouquet or as bunch or as heap, flowers are beautiful to see.Some of the smelling flowers have more attraction- Roses and Jasmine. InTamilnadu one can see women wearing non-smelling flowers also- Kadambam. I have not seenit in Kerala. 12. Not attractive but most smelling TheKaithappo smells for a very long distance either in the plant or from a personwearing a bit of it. Normally in costly marriage garlands, a piece of kaithappois attached while making. 13. Flowers decoration. For manyfestivals, samskaras flowers are used in abundance. During most marriages now,the attending women are given stitched jasmine. In the reception roses would bethere. For daily poojas as well as festivals flowers are used. Somerestriction of flowers is made for use in temples. All flowers are not used.For Devi/ Kali temples red flowers have prominence. Flowers are kept in one form or other in mosthouses, offices etc. 14. Widows and flower At onetime widows were permitted to wear only one flower- Tulasi. Now too orthodox donot wear other flowers. I do not know the beginning of calling peoplewearing garlands of chembaratthi or keeping chembarathi on ear as insane. I haveseen gay people wearing jasmine garlands in the hand as an indication. For srardha the only flower is used is Tulasi. 15. Lotus I startedwith Lotus. Lotus blossom with sunrise and close with sunset. For Vishnu temple, sasthapreethi, Krishnantemples, lotus is very much used in worshipping. Many pictures of Goddesslekshmi are drawn, Lakshmi sitting on the Lotus. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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