DIVINEINFORMATION PART 33 Dear friends,
While going through one of my external memorydevice, I came across some good information stored from websites. I thought of sharing interestingones from them as a series. In part 33, I am starting with 120TH item in this posting. Sincerely, GopalaKrishnan 13-6-21 120 Mannar Poluru:- AlghuMalluru Krishna Swamy temple is existing in the Mannarpoluru Village, right from the timeof Telugu Chola rulers. The village is close-by toSullurupet, at a distance of 103 Km.from Nellore. Itwas built in the 17th century by BangaruYadama Nayudu, the living place of mallayodas or wrestlers. According to a legend, it was here thatLord Sri Krishna defeated Jambavantha ina duel and married his daughterJambavati and that Lord MahaVishnu deflated the bloated ego of Garutmata here alone. Apart from the idol of Satyabhama and Jambavati, the twoconsorts of Lord Krishna, the idol ofJambavantha creating the illusion of shedding tears are bound to amaze the viewers. One cannot help marvelling at the sculptural splendour exudedby the idols of the beauties. 121 Sriharikota: Sriharikotais an island, situated on the National Highway No.5 to Chennai, Kolkata and aforest –like area to the east of Sullurupet in between Pulicat Lake and Bay of Bengal. The ancient residents of this island were ToorpuReddis and Challa Yanadis. Who led aprimitive way of life. Their staplediet was what Nature bestowed on them –Veduru biyyam (bamboo Manna), honey and different varieties of fruit and their homes were nest – like huts. This is the picture of people who lived there three centuries ago. Inorder to facilitate the construction of SHAR, all those people of bygone timehad been rehabilitated in a little faraway area and given special facilitiesSulurupet area in the district has seen great development in the last 40 yearsafter the advent of SHAR near by. Under the stewardship of Dr. VikramSarabhai of the Indian Space ResearchOrganisation of rocket lauching space Centre was Established at Sriharikotain 1968. The launching of a missile helps streamliningthe study of tele-communications, TV,lights and environmental relationships. The possibilities of a good harvest,how snowfall and clouds disappear, theinformation relating to impendingfloods and storms and similar natural calamiatiesm locating the mountains – the missile provides us with fore knowledge of all these happenings and enablesus to take precautionary stepsbeforehand. 122 THE GAUD The Goud (Teluguare one of the largestcastes in Andhra Pradesh comprising more than 17% of its population. Goudsare involved in soma and Ayurvedic medicine developers in ancient days who areclassified as Somavansh Kshatriyas. At present, they are involved in Palmwine/Toddy tapping, farming and modern professions. 122a Origin Regardingtheir origin, several legends are present. According to the Goud Puran, they are said to have comefrom Benares and other parts of Northern India, where they wereoriginally engaged in the manufacture and sales of spirituous liquors. Another legend represents them ashaving sprung from Koundinya Rishi, whowas created by Parvati for the purpose of extracting and fermenting the sap ofthe wild date palm and thus supplying the wants of gods and men in the matterof intoxicating drinks. It is said that the gods and demonswere so delighted with the pleasant beverage, that they conferred upon him thetitle of 'Gouda' or 'the head of mankind.' Thewords Goud and Idiga is believed to derived from old Dravidian word ida or ilameans island. They are known as Deevaramakkalu (in Kannada) which also mighthave been derived from dweep which means an island, possibly pointing towardsSrilanka. It’s believed that Gouds were practicingBuddhism before the arrival of Brahmins fromthe North. Buddhismin South India is believed to have arrived from Srilanka and hence the Idigaswere possibly descendants of the Buddhist monks from Srilanka and natives whoabsorbed Buddhism by influence of these monks. Therewere two divisions among Gouds of Andhra Pradesh, Dandu Idigas and Baliga Idigas. Danduor Dande, meaning Pole weapon/pole, was used as weapon in wars. Dandu Idigaswere warriors and were associated with feudal army of Telugu kings. DanduIdigas were also known as Palli or Patha(old) Gouds, consideredto be endangered. Baliga Idigas were toddy tappers of palm tree. 122b The History of alcohol reveals thefollowing facts. Humans all over the world consumed alcoholicbeverages as a stable food from 1000BCto 2000BC as compared to bread or meals. In India, sura drink and soma are prepared from the cultivated productslike rice, wheat, sugar cane( Ikshvaku), grapes, flowers and other fruits. Storage of these beverages is very easy as compared to storage of grains. These beverages are considered as the God given due to their energy contentand medicinal effects. During2000 BC to 500 BC, human beings food habits changed from alcohol consumption to more traditional foods likebread, meals, rasam and curries etc as there are lots of ayurvedic medicinesinvented during these times. Kingdomsare formed around 5000 years back or 3000BC. During these times, somavanshi Kshatriyas took over the profession of development& production of alcoholic beverage and ayurvedic medicine. Thealcohol beverage words like sura, sara are closely related to the ancient wordslike surya,Ikshvaku ( sugar cane ) and sarayu . 122c Mythological Origins According to Gowd legend, theyoriginated from the Great Sage Kaundinya who lived in kurnool district (around 1300 AD) Template:Goudacharitra book with goud hostel, whothey believe originally invented toddy tapping. They believe that many kings came from their communityincluding the Chalukya, and the Satavahana kings. The communityis derived branch of somavamsha kshatriyas( Haihaya kshatriyas) who lived at the time of Parashurama. They pray the deity Renuka who is a kshatriya and mother of Parashurama.She is wife of jamadagni who is abrahmin. Atthose times, the community needed a kshatriya type warrior position to spreadsoma to the people. Theyneeded brahminical help to do different types of soma liquids. Alcohol,Madhu or Nectar is first given to Demi Gods by Lord Vishnu in Mohini Avatar along with Kalpavriksha (present daycoconut tree or palm tree). These treesmay be 60 million years old. The timing also coincides with the timing of kurma avatar. Lord Vishnu is also called as Madhu orMadhusudhan. Inthe initial days, Gouds got patronizedby Amrutham and started distilling different types of liquor. They used to serve liquor to the people to relieve them from different types of diseases andpains. They invented lot of ayurvedic medicines to sabotage differenttypes of illnesses. Theytried most of the trees and fruits toget different types of wines. Finally they invented toddy (onlyhaving 1 to 5 % alcohol) which is considered to be the bestfood as well as medicine, even today. Toddyis drunk mostly in the rural parts which is relatively low in price ( of about ¼ the cost of Beer ofsame alcoholic content). Toddy isavailable only during February to May month of every year. The community will live like farmers during the rest of theyear. The members of the caste claim to havethe following gotras (exogamous groups) 1)Koundinya, (2) Shivanama gotra, (3) Nishila gotra, (4) Surabhandeshwar, (5) Shivanshagotra, (6) Bharadwaja, (7) kashyapa, (8) Mrukanda, (9) vasista, (10)Markendeya, (11) Dhanunjaya, (12) Datteraya, (13) Vruddhamahamuni, (14)Tullyamahamuni, (15) Racherla (This gotram came around 500 AD) (16) Pydipala(This gotram came around 1700 AD) and (17) Kamandalam. My note- Ihave added the liquor part for the mythological origins. Probably about fewmonths back toddy shops opened in Kerala, and toddy exhausted in few hours inall the shops. There are many iyers drinking liquor, whoserved in military, navy and air force even after retirement.This posting never try to promote drinking liquor habit I will continue in next posting -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/344930095.3826103.1623547413676%40mail.yahoo.com.
