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River Cauvery
Cauvery
is among the five sacred rivers of India and beloved to people in southern India.
There
was a mountain called Vindhya; he was tall and good-looking. A meddlesome
person once praised Meru, another mountain right in front of Vindhya. Wanting
to be taller than Meru, a jealous Vindhya started growing towards the sky.
Very
soon, he blocked the Sun. People, animals, and forests in Vindhya’s shadow, got
no sunlight at all. The Sun was at a loss. However high he rose, Vindhya grew
taller and blocked his light. The people, animals, and forests begged Vindhya
to stop, but he heard nothing.
Even
the Gods were at a loss. In desperation they approached the powerful sage
Agasthya for help. The sage went to Vindhya and asked him to bend so that he
could cross over to the South. After he crossed over, he asked Vindhya to stay
that way until he crossed back. Vindhya promised to stay at that height until
the sage returned. Once he came south, the sage stayed back, to the happiness
of the people around Vindhya.
The
sage had to marry as he wanted to have a child. With his yogic powers he
gathered the most beautiful parts of creatures in the forests and put them
together into a beautiful infant.
Fitting
the jigsaw pieces together
King
Kavera, who lived in those parts, is said to have prayed to Brahma for a child.
Coincidentally, Sage Agasthya needed someone to bring up the infant he had
created. To bring the jigsaw pieces together, Lord Brahma had a daughter
Vishnumaya, who craved to serve humanity on Earth.
With
Brahma’s blessing, Vishnumaya was born as Lopamudra to King Kavera. She was the
infant Agasthya had created. Lopamudra grew up into a beautiful woman, with her
craving to serve humanity (Vishnumaya’s wish) very much intact.
Sage
Agasthya on one of his many travels met Lopamudra, and asked Kavera for her
hand in marriage. He was an older man and not really pleasing to the eye with
his sage-like dress and hair. Lopamudra agreed to marry the sage on one
condition – he was not to leave her alone for a great stretch of time. If he
did, she would leave. Sage Agasthya was agreeable.
A
refusal to accept the unfair
Lopamudra
married the sage and they settled down in his ashram. Once, while traveling,
the sage fell ill and turned unconscious. With no help, Lopamudra had to carry
him home all alone. It was difficult, for the sage was a big man, but Lopamudra
too was strong-willed. On the dark path home, Agastya’s dangling foot touched a
sleeping holy man. Fiercely angered, the holy man cursed the owner of the foot
to death, at sunrise.
Lopamudra,
thought this totally unfair. After all, she was the one who had been carrying
the sage and she had not meant to humiliate the holy man deliberately. So, she
stated, “Let the Sun not rise if I have been a good wife by helping my
husband.”
And
the Sun never rose!
Earth
was in darkness. The Gods were shaken. They came running to Lopamudra.
“Lift
the ban”, they begged.
She
explained her reason and offered to lift the ban, only if they lifted the
uncalled for curse by the holy man. The Gods did. The sage lived and Lopamudra
lifted her ban. The Sun rose and all was well on Earth.
Such
was her strength of will in not accepting an unfair curse.
From
Lopamudra to Cauvery
Legend
goes on that Sage Agasthya once turned Kaveri into water and left her in his
kamandala. On realizing that she had been left alone for a long time, Lopamudra
flowed out as a river. The sage’s disciples tried to stop her, but she dived
into the Earth and they could not track her. Eventually she Description:
Cauvery and Vesselreappeared at Bhagamandala. Much later, the sage came looking
for her and recognized her in the river Cauvery. Some believe that she did live
on with Agasthya as his wife and also served the people as the river.There is
also a version which says that Agasthy had kept his wife in his kamandala as
water. Ganesha in the form of a crow flew by toppling it over and letting the
waters flow.
After
she flowed as a river, she was called Cauvery (Kaveri being the pre-British
spelling) as she was Kavera’s daughter. Wanting to be the holiest river, she
prayed to Lord Vishnu and asked to be made holier than the Ganga. Vishnu
explained that the Ganga was holy as she originated from his feet. He said
Cauvery would be his garland, close to his heart, and therefore, more sacred.
And so it is that three of the holiest shrines of Vishnu are found at
Srirangapatna, Shivanasamudra, and Shrirangam called Adi-ranga, Madhya-ranga
and Antya-ranga respectively: in every one of these places the temple is on
island with the Cauvery encircling it, just like the mythical garland!
From
this came the other legend that the Ganga comes via an underground route once
every year to Cauvery for a cleansing dip.And so it was that just as Vishnumaya
had craved, she flowed on Earth as Cauvery serving humanity.
An
associated legend from Srirangam
The
temple at Srirangam is one of the finest examples of south Indian temple
architecture and the gopuram or the spire like structure above the roof is said
to be the tallest of gopurams. Also, this is the largest functioning Hindu
temple in the world.
The
legend of the place says that Brahma once asked Lord Vishnu for an idol of his
lying on the great serpent Adi-Shesha, so he could pray to it. It was granted
and Brahma came to possess a beautiful statue of the Lord in the sleeping
posture (called Ranganatha) lying on Adi-Shesha.
Thereon
over millennia, the statue came into the possession of Ikshvaku after he
performed a great penance for it. Rama of the Ramayana fame was Ikshvaku’s
descendent. It came into his possession and he prayed to it with great
devotion.
After
the epic war between Rama and Ravana, Vibheeshana, Ravana’s brother came along
with Rama to India for Rama’s coronation. As he was leaving, Rama asked
Vibheeshana to ask for something that he would like. He asked for Lord
Ranganatha’s statue. As promised, Rama handed it over and Vibheeshana started
back.
There
was a condition attached. If it were put down the statue would take root there.
Flying back in his Pushpak Vimana, Vibhishana had to stop near Srirangam to
complete some rituals. He needed his hands free. Spotting a cowherd, he asked
him to hold it until he got back.
The
cowhered said he would hold it up, but if his arms tired, he would put it down
after calling out “Vibheeshna” three times. Agreeing to this arrangement,
Vibheeshana went down to the river. The cowherd held it up for a while. When
his arms tired, he called “Vibheeshana” three times and then promptly put it
down.
On
returning, Vibheeshana was horrified to see that the statue had taken root. He
could not move it. Greatly angered, he ran looking for the cowherd, who had not
wandered far. On spotting him, unthinkingly the angry Vibheeshana gave him a
sharp thwack on his head. The cowherd changed into his real form – Ganesha.
Thoroughly
ashamed, Vibheeshana apologized profusely and went back to his idol. Completely
confused he wondered what he could do. Lord Ranganathswamy appeared and asked
him not to worry. Though he could not make it to Lanka, he would always look
towards Lanka.
The
big temple we find today was built much later by a Chola king. Interestingly,
the statue faces Lanka and the idol at the Ganesha temple has a slight bump on
the head!
Trivia
·
The
Cauvery River originates in the Western Ghats and empties into the Bay of
Bengal.
·
Kaveri
is the original spelling of this river. Cauvery is the English spelling.
·
Asia’s
first hydroelectric plant used water from this river to power the city of
Bangalore.
·
While
the waters of this river are shared between the states of Karnataka and Tamil
Nadu, Tamil Nadu uses a majority of the resources.
·
The
state of Karnataka complains that the water distribution is unjustly divided
and this should be changed.
·
Talakad,
a holy temple town in which the festival of Panchalinga Darshana is held every
12 years, is on the banks of the Cauvery. Devotees bathe in the waters of this
river during the days of this festival.
·
The
people of Tamil Nadu, who rely so heavily on the Cauvery River, celebrate its
floods with a festival.
·
It
is the most important water source to South India.
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