Monday, July 12, 2004
Avinashi, the Southern Kashi
Yesterday I visited the 15th century Avinashi-easwaran temple , magnificent in its splendour and grandeur.A beautiful temple with a hoary past , the temple is famous for its association with the poet-saint Sunderamurty Nyanar who was supposed to have brought back to life a three-year-old boy killed by a crocodile . The myth has rich poetic possibilities . I tried converting the myth into poetry but could not somehow make much out of it . May be , I will try later when I am properly charged !
At Avinashi the colleague took me to a nadi-astrologer who was supposed to predict your future by looking at your thumb-impression which will be analysed with the help of age-old palm leaves in the possession of these astrologers. Today he tells me that the records pertaining to me are not available with him and he has therefore sent my thumb impression to Tanjore for a detailed examination using their palm leaf data base there ! I keep my fingers crossed in the meanwhile. I pray that he will tell me some nice things ! ¶ 5:32 AM
Yesterday I visited the 15th century Avinashi-easwaran temple , magnificent in its splendour and grandeur.A beautiful temple with a hoary past , the temple is famous for its association with the poet-saint Sunderamurty Nyanar who was supposed to have brought back to life a three-year-old boy killed by a crocodile . The myth has rich poetic possibilities . I tried converting the myth into poetry but could not somehow make much out of it . May be , I will try later when I am properly charged !
At Avinashi the colleague took me to a nadi-astrologer who was supposed to predict your future by looking at your thumb-impression which will be analysed with the help of age-old palm leaves in the possession of these astrologers. Today he tells me that the records pertaining to me are not available with him and he has therefore sent my thumb impression to Tanjore for a detailed examination using their palm leaf data base there ! I keep my fingers crossed in the meanwhile. I pray that he will tell me some nice things ! ¶ 5:32 AM
