Dhanu's friends...

I had been with Dhanesh to drop him in school this morning. I accompany him twice or thrice a month. They allow kinder garden parents alone to enter premises.

He wanted me to come inside campus and drop me in his class and wave bye to him. On reaching classroom, I used to handover the bag to him and he will go inside class. He will sit in his desk and say bye to me.

But today, his classmate got his bag from me and took it to his desk. I do not know her name. He had not talked to us about girls in her class too. From the way , the little girl got the bag and kept in his desk , I could see that she does that for other classmates too.

For generations women had been doing the entire house chores. They were pampering the men at home. It could have been a point that little girl does this type of tasks to her family members at home.

Why women still don't get their girl child out of these stuff?

--Dhanesh Amma

Hanuman asks Jangiri?

In the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated in the month of Margazhi (normally comes between Dec 15 and Jan 14). I could not visit the temple this time, however saw the picture of deity decorated with jangiri (sweet similar to that of jilebi of north india). I could not post a picture of the same here for reference.

I only have a temple website link which states the same.

[On the day of Moola nakshathiram vadai malai, vetrilai malai and jangiri malai are dedicated devotedly to the God.]

I have heard that vadamalai offering to Anjaneya other than the butter, tulsi etc.Hanuman being the God of strength these vadamalai (full of protein content) is offered and distributed to the people to inherit the strength like Hanuman.

On surfing net, I could see offerings like sandal, coconut, sugarcane, fruits , vegetables and even dry fruits has been used for decorating the God.

Below are few such pictures of Lord Hanuman.

Susindram Anjaneyar in sandhana alangaram



Namakkal Anjaneyar in butter alangaram



Nellai Anjaneyar in coconut alangaram




Anjaneyar in sugar cane alangaram



anjaneyar in vadai, butter , grapes ,cherry & tulasi alangaram



Anjaneyar in vadamaalai alangaram




Anjaneyar in fruits alangaram



Anjaneyar in dry fruits alangaram



But when they started this jangiri?

Could that be because vadamalai is hot and spicy and people wanted to eat something sweet along with it ?

Or this came from north india where people like sweets and this is the one which can be added to a string like maalai ?Anjaneya, english, God, hanuman,

Or sweet stall people wanted to boost up the sales of sweets by this?

Or Lord Hanuman itself wanted to taste sweet and asked jangiri ?

--Dhanesh Amma

Glass Bangles

When it comes to decoration, first item we choose is flowers.

In temples , God is also decorated with colorful flowers and garlands.

There are cases i have observed with the goddess that decorations are made with fruits and vegetables during the season when their prices come down.

I had seen in some amman temples during the month of aadi, goddess is decorated with glass bangles. I had not observed or heard in my home town about this. So thought this is something happening in Chennai alone.

But when i saw in news paper this year, I could see this is happening in amman temple of all south Tamilnadu region.
Below is a picture showing such decoration made of glass bangles.



Like flowers, these bangles are offered to the god by people before the decoration day. Later the bangles are then distributed to people who visit the temple.

Though there are many varieties of bangles available in market, glass bangles deserve a special place. Still question peeps in.

When there are lot of women accessories, what could be the special reason for choosing the bangles for decoration?? Could it be because it is affordable and available in market easily like the flowers ? then why the month aadi is selected for it instead of all time?

If you have an answer leave them in comments box..

--Dhanesh Amma

All about Nine

There is something special with Number nine.

We have nine planets in our solar system. (nava graha)

We celebrate nava ratri for worshiping nine forms of Shakti/Devi

In Mathematics one can play many tricks with number nine.

When I did schooling, I was asked to answer a question. How many nine's are there in range 1 - 100. I counted the numbers in mind and gave answer as 11. (9,19,29,39,49,59,69,79,89,99) . Note : here we have two nine's in 99. I was sure that I have given a correct answer, but I was told, I'm wrong. Yes. I had missed out 9 more nine's (90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98). Correct answer is 20.

From that moment, I do not like the number 9. Not just 9 but also 99 as it prevents the name of getting cent percent by one mark..

Recently I came across a clock which uses number 9 alone to show hours from one to twelve. Each hour is computed from three nine's and the mathematical notations. Image of it is shown below . (picture got from google).



But I get one question. Why the transgenders are referred as nine in tamil movies? Anybody of you have an answer for it?

Though this post is talking all about nine, this happens to be the tenth post in my blog..

--Dhanesh Amma