THANGA BHASMAKURIYITTA THAMBURATTI…
Dear friends, Like many other Malayalam words, the word Kuri also has manymeanings. One among them is identificationmark. In many electrical gadgets markings identify pointshelp to use them in proper manner. Three examples are the positioning of cells in theremote unit of TV, Channel remote and AC remote. Nowadays many channels remote comewith TV remote also. The difference is indicated using colour of the button. Another two examples are the way pen drive/ cordlessmouse receiver etc. to be inserted in the USB in the laptop/computer. Another one how the pin has to be inserted in mobile formobile charging. The kuri with sandal paste or holy ash in the forehead of amale member in the morning indicates one has completed bath among Hindus. If wesee an iyer/Brahman without kuri in forehead in the morning, it meant he wasgoing to perform some semi auspicious or in auspicious thing. Same with womenalso. In respect of srardha, the sasthrikal would announcewhen women to apply kukum and fully tie the hair in the end of srardhaperformance. Essentially one day we can see all Brahmins wearingKuri in the forehead as well as in the body- Yes. It is our UPAKARMA day. After taking bath unless holy ash is put in forehead,I feel something wrong whatever be the urgencies. Similarly when I go out for a work I pray specially Vinayakain the pooja room and take holy ash and put in forehead and make an undiyaldeposit with a coin. I am not able to express in word my mental feeling andsatisfaction after that. A day on some account I missed to perform them in home,I ensure to do so in a wayside temple. Few esteemed members have written, every day they waitfor my compilation of CULTURAL QA. Now for the Question Answer Divine also. Let me go ahead with my KURI. My title is from a Malayalam film song… Film - Koottukudumbam (1969)Singer - K J Yesudas Lyrics & Music - Vayalar & G.Devarajan. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 18-2-2013. A re-writtenposting of an earlier one on 18-2-2013 with editing and updating. 1. Puthiya kuri(New chit) One of the meanings of KURI is chit. Though chit fundsare everywhere recently I read in Kerala Trichur, the number of chit fundcompanies is more. They are well disciplined andtrustworthy. The person who has no immediate requirement of moneygets maximum benefit from a chit. The person who has emergency too able to meetit through chit, by auctioning early installments, though at a loss. We can see advertisements of new chits. This attractspeople in need more. I see more advertisement from KSFE, Muthoot etc. in MalayalamTV channels. It appears in Chennai, Teynampet metro station theadvertisement of Mutthoot occupying full walls and coloured dark red. I have seen many taking early chits, having enoughgold with them for a loan from Bank. There are two arguments for it. One, theearly auctioning of chit by them goes privately. If ornaments have beenpledged, when functions come, women cannot wear, the financial deficiencybecome slightly public. Another point by an intelligent person was- Gold is areserve, chit fund cannot be reserve. 1a. Daily chits I am not sure still these chits are there run bybanks, on those days it was a practice for a person of the bank (agent system)to visit shops, collect money as a daily chit fund. My brother who was running a shop wascontributing to it. He used to auction earlier. Private chits are still there. 2. Marking witha small x or dot. Normally postmen or courier people for receipts ask usto sign in their form or instrument. Most of them make an x mark irrespectiveof person. I think only in sub registrar office documents such marks are notmade. Even in banks they mark the places to sign with X other than in cheques. This X marks issometimes printed in the forms itself. Some courier people hand over things and takea photo of the home while we move with article instead of signature 3. Sami- Kurimaripoyee… (Sir, Kuri has changed) On those days the dhobi used to make a mark on thecloths given for washing. Different families- different markings. 99 % the markwould not get confused. But one % it happens to them. Once the new dhoti of my father had changed withanother one while bringing after washing. There was another costly dhotiinstead. My father returned, telling it is not his dhoti-An incident in myboyhood days. The dhobi searched all houses he delivered washedcloths for last two days. Finally he got after a week telling as sub title. Itwas given to some rich family who never checked. 4. Diary withbits There are many people who keep as bits of paper asinformation- Kurippu. Other than him nobody can make out. They keep it in factin some diary here and there. Even occasionally it can fall down, However most are having such habits, keeping in bits,thinking to write later correctly, and forget also. Some leave it like that dueto some sort of lethargy or laziness. Now we get in the stationary shops small writing booksof size 3’’x 2.5” with 50 pages. Even with street venders now we can see it.Such notes are called bit notebook or kurippedu. It is very convenient to note thingsin an emergency. Very handy. During my train travel I carry such note clearlywriting my name, address and phone number. One of my cousin brother suddenly fell ill and becameunconscious and became Late in a few days. He was keeping information in bits.Even his debit card pin was not told to any close person. One can imagine thedifficulty. 5. Kuruppintaekochhu pusthakam… On those days when diaries were not so common or affordabilitywas less, it was practice to get small notebooks having thick cover and a fewpages and small in size. Merchants in market, many households used to keep themas a TREASURE even folding as half size. My father used to have such a note foryears together. Many times such notes are nick named as “Kuruppintae kochhupusthakam”… 6. Bits undertable glass Throughout my career under the table glass at least20-30 BITS used to be there in different inks, colors of paper etc. I have copied them many a times to a smallnote, but the paper bits were more convenient for immediate reference whilecalled by my officer. Such bits under my table were helpful to my staffalso. Many a time staff would come see here and there in my table to locate afile or paper and go with a smile. Some lady staff would sit opposite, ask somequestion, never listen to my reply, search and find out their requirement, andgo with a smile since many feel delicate simply search!!! 7. Takingnotes- Kurippedukkal. During lecture classes it was a practice to take noteswhile lecturing or while writing. This helps a lot even now. A world told mayrecollect many things to a person. 8. Appa,kuripodungo. Many times when my wife comes with sandal prasadamfrom temple, in child hood days my children might ask me to put as VERTICALGOPI. As a little different from horizontal lines. They liked it very much onthose days. 9. Reception inmarriage etc. I have really felt the provision of sandalwood pastewith cents added, and Kumkum in the reception as EXCELLENT. If at all we haveforgotten to apply kuri and went, this helped much to have a good-looking faceapplying kalabham from there. I make use of it. Many of our women might do all make-ups, all sari foldadjustments, cents on body, tying hair this way and that way, but miss kumkumor the pottu would have fall down during travel since not properlypressed. Unless they look concentratedin mirror they will not note it. In the reception, the small girls would announce,MAMI NETTILAE POTTILLAI, KUMKUM, OR POTTU EDUTHUKKUNGO… I really like these Vands in the reception. -- 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/1863516545.1399688.1632735214207%40mail.yahoo.com.
