Kairavini karaiyinile - திரு அல்லிக்கேணி குளக்கரையோரம்: தைப்பூசம் - Sri Parthasarathi Perumal harvest ~ Kalinga Narthanam 2025

தைப்பூசம் - Sri Parthasarathi Perumal harvest

~ Kalinga Narthana Thirukolam 2025

எல்லா நாகரீகங்களிலும் அறுவடை சிறப்பாக கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது. மாடுகட்டிப் போரடித்தால் மாளாது செந்நெல் என்று யானைகட்டிப் போரடித்தவர்களாய் தமிழர்களின் சிறப்பு கூறப்படுகிறது.

Ever heard of ‘City of Westminster’, an inner London city and borough. It has been the capital city, de facto, of multiple British governments. Historically in Middlesex, it is immediately to the west of the older City of London. Not much was read about : Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658), an English general and statesman who, first as a subordinate and latterly as Commander-in-Chief, led armies of the Parliament of England against King Charles I during the English Civil War, subsequently ruling the British Isles as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658. Or that a war thousands of miles away threatened changing the dynamics of Chennai, India, - British India to be precise.

அறுவடை என்பது பயிரிடப்பட்ட பயிரிலுள்ள பொருளாதார முக்கியத்துவம் வாய்ந்த பகுதியை முதிர்ச்சிக்குப் பின் சேகரித்தல் ஆகும். நெல்மணிகளை அறுத்து, போரடித்து நாம் உண்ணும் அரிசியாக மாற்றுவது மகத்துவமானது. மனித நாகரீகத்தில், தொன்மையான தொழில், உழவுத் தொழில். வயல்களில் களை எடுத்து, ஆழ உழுது, நீர் பாய்ச்சி, விதை தூவி,உரமிட்டு, பயிர்களை பேணி வளர்ப்பர் விவசாயிகள். நல்ல வளர்பிறை நாளில் ஏர் பூட்டி நிலத்தில் உழவு செய்வது விவசாயிகளின் பாரம்பர்ய வழக்கம். அந்த ஆண்டு முழுவதும் நல்ல மகசூல் கிடைக்க வேண்டும் எனச் சூரிய பகவானிடம் வேண்டி உழவு செய்து வைப்பார்கள் விவசாயிகள். இப்படி ஏர் பூட்டுவதைப் ‘பொன் ஏர் பூட்டுதல்’, ‘ என்பர். நன்கு விளைந்த பயிர்களை அறுவடை செய்வது ஒரு திருவிழா !

Feb 12, 2025 (Thai 305 – Pournami day) was a very special day for all Hindus. ‘Thai Pusam’ - Sri Parthasarathi special purappadu. There are very few occasions when Perumal purappadu has purappadu outside the precincts of mada veethi. On Thaipoosam, Sri Parthasarathi in ‘Kaalinga Narthana thirukolam’ accompanied by Senai Muthaliyaar had periya maada veedhi purappadu thence to Big Street. For Saivaites – thai poosam on pournami day is significant as it commemorates the birth day of Murugan and the occasion when Parvathi gave Subramanyar a spear for vanishing the demon Soorapadman.

At Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam, traditionally on Thaipusam day, Sri Parthasarathi visits Big Street – the long winding Veeraghava Mudali Street – which now a days is more of a lane than a Big! street…. This is the Uthsavam where Perumal oversees the bountiful harvest from His field. (kadhir aruthal). Perhaps many decades or even centuries ago, the junction of Big Street, Bharathi Salai (Pycrofts road), might have represented the end of the locality and perhaps the area thereafter could have been rice fields………… now it is maze of buildings in small lanes and by-lanes where people jostle for space. There was a pandal put up at the Junction where Perumal halted for a brief-while and paddy was placed before the Lord, then at His feet. The rice grains so placed were distributed to the devotees too…

I had been under the impression that perhaps this could be construed as the boundary of Triplicane village of olden days – but couple of well-informed persons had posted that Perumal used to visit longer – till the vasantha mantap of the Sri Arasadi Karpaga Vinayagar temple (more famously Big Street Pillaiyar kovil) and beyond the famous Red building of The Hindu High School , .. .. not any longer !

Periyazhwar in his ‘Periyazhwar Thirumozhi’ sings:

காளியன் பொய்கை கலங்கப் பாய்ந்திட்டு * அவன்

நீள்முடியைந்திலும் நின்று நடம்செய்து*

மீள அவனுக்கு அருள் செய்த வித்தகன்*

தோள்வலி வீரமே பாடிப்பற! தூமணி வண்ணனைப் பாடிப்பற!!

This is legend of most dreaded Kaliya and the exploit of Lord Krishna who jumped into the pond, danced on the hood of deadly snake, thereby turning the lake turbid - and when Kaliya surrendered, He benevolently favoured him too…. Kaliya also known as Kalingan was a poisonous Naga living in the Yamuna River, in Vrindavan. Over the years, the water had turned totally poisonous, thereby causing trouble to fish, cattle, birds and all living things. Legend had it that Kaliya had chosen that place as Garuda was prevented from entering there.

Lord Krishna was playing with cowherd colleagues, when the ball fell into the water source. Krishna playfully jumped into it. Kāliya with his anger, rose up emitting poison and wrapped himself around Krishna's body. The folk around and all others were mortally afraid and started praying. Lord Krishna subdued him, sprang into Kāliya's head and danced on its head. The serpent king’s wives came and prayed to Lord Krishna with folded hands. Kāliya, too, recognizing the greatness of Krishna, surrendered, promising he would not harass anybody. Lord Krishna pardoned him and showed him the divine path, once he vowed to eschew violence and fell at His Lotus Feets. The chastising of the Naga King is described in great detail. Lord Krishna whose birth was to subdue envious demons, climbed atop a Kadamba tree and finally changed the very nature of Kalinga.

இன்று [12.2.2025] தைப்பூசம். ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி பெருமாள் காளிங்கன் மீது நர்த்தனமாடும் திருகோலத்தில் பாங்குடன் புறப்பாடு கண்டு அருளினார். ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி பெருமாளுடன், சேனை முதல்வரும் எழுந்து அருளினார்.

திருவல்லிக்கேணி திவ்யதேசத்தின் பல புறப்பாடுகளில் இன்று ஒரு தனி சிறப்பு. தை பூசம் அன்று மட்டுமே, பெருமாள் கங்கை கொண்டான் மண்டபம் தாண்டி பெரிய தெரு (வீரராகவ முதலி தெரு என்பதே இத்தெருவின் தொன்மையான பெயர்) எழுந்து அருள்கிறார். தைப்பூசம் என்பது 'கதிர் அறுக்கும்' திருநாளாக கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது. பெரிய தெருவும் பாரதி சாலையும் சந்திக்கும் இடத்தில் அமைக்கப்பட்ட பந்தலில் ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி எழுந்து அருளியவுடன், நெல்மணிகள் கொண்ட கட்டு பெருமாளுக்கு சமர்ப்பிக்கப்பட்டு, பெருமாளின் திருவடிகளில் வைக்கப்பட்டு, பிறகு நெல்கதிர்கள் பக்தர்களுக்கு வழங்கப்படுகின்றன. பல வருடங்களுக்கு முன், இவ்விடம் ஊர் எல்லை ஆகவும், தாண்டிய பகுதிகள் வயல் வரப்புகள் ஆகவும் இருந்து இருக்க வேண்டும். இவ்வுத்சவம், பெருமாள் தனக்கு சொந்தமான வயல்களில் அறுக்கப்பட்ட நெற்கதிர்களின் கணக்கு பார்ப்பதாக ஐதீஹம்.

Thiruvallikkeni and Thirumylai and other places like Thiruvanmiyur, Thiruvottiyur – existed far many centuries before the history of the city of Madrasapattinam started. .. .. not sure what would have the boundaries of yore .. there existed a river then known as Thiruvallikkeni river too !!

Following the Irish Rebellion of 1641, most of Ireland came under the control of the Irish Catholic Confederation. In early 1649, the Confederates allied with the English Royalists, who had been defeated by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War. By May 1652, Cromwell's Parliamentarian army had defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country, ending the Irish Confederate Wars (or Eleven Years' War).

Around that time, near our residences – Francis Day obtained grant from the Rajah of Chandragiri on 1.3.1639 and the station was considered to be so important by the Agency at Masulipatam, that they directed Day to begin building the Fort at the Company’s expense, without waiting for the orders of the Court of Directors. When Fort St George was initially established - the times were bad. Trade had been very bad at home, as well as on the Coast of Coromandel. England had been distracted by the great Civil War, between Charles and his –Parliament. The Company were to suffer more when King Charles returned after war against the Scotts; there was pressing need for money that compelled them to resort to most extraordinary means for obtaining it. In 1652, matters became even more threatening. Cromwell declared war against Holland, and the Factors in the Fort were now in imminent peril. They prayed to the Directors to increase their little garrison, and permit them to complete their fortifications; and above all to be allowed to construct a curtain towards the sea. The little Agency forces here in Madrasapatnam felt very threatened of their existence from natives as also from a cannonading from the Dutch on the side facing the sea. The friendship between the Portuguese and English was probably cemented by their common enmity towards the Dutch. Indeed the Dutch possessed so powerful a force in the Indian seas, that it seemed as though no nation could stand against them. They took Ceylon and excluded the Portuguese from the Island. They blockaded the Portuguese capital of Goa ; they blockaded the English settlement at Bantam ; and it was fully expected that if Goa fell, the Dutch would blockade the Surat river, and thus put themselves in possession of the whole of the trade on the Coast of Malabar.

In 1654, a treaty was at length concluded between the English and Dutch, known as the treaty of Westminster. That treaty concluded between the Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell, and the States General of the United Netherlands, was signed in April 1654. The treaty ended the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654). The treaty is otherwise notable because it is one of the first treaties implementing international arbitration as a method of conflict resolution in early modern times. But the colonial forces eventually took control of the vast Nation and we ended up reading only British dominance as the only History that occurred to us !!

புறப்பாட்டின் போது எடுக்கப்பட்ட சில படங்கள். இதோ இங்கே ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி எம்பெருமானின் திருப்பாதங்களில் நெற்கதிர்கள் சமர்ப்பிக்கப்படும் காணொளி : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzuyaCOfws