My native village Thenari is a famous
historical and religious village .it is situated in palakkad district ,kerala
state in india. I wish to elaborate the history.
Kerala was brought out from the sea by
throwing the axe after his ‘’THAPAS’’to reduce the sin of killing his own
mother by the order of father Jamadhakni maharshi . to reduce the penance he
constructed 108 siva temples all over
india. Madhyaranya siva temple is the 6th one which is in our village. This
village is famous for temples.
There is a sree Rama temple which is known as saragangathreetha.
There is a bull statue in this temple , since the water through the bulls mouth
use to come throughout day and night for years. people says that the water is
coming from river Ganga which is flowing at Banaras Uttar Pradesh state in India .the real story of water
coming from Uttar Pradesh Varanasi to theneri is as follows .
After the battle between Rama and Ravana at Srilanka to take back his wife Sita, They
were coming back to Ayodhya. First they reached to Rameswaram which is at
Tamilnadu. There Sree Rama decided to construct a Siva temple. There they
install a siva linga with the help of sand by Sitadevi since Hanuman took a
long time to bring the Spadika linga from mount Himalaya. After reaching with linga Hanuman stood in front of Rama
with linga. Rama told him to remove the Sita prathesta lingam and replace the spadiga lingam there.
Being a strong man Hanuman was not able to
remove the Sita prathista linga. He came to know the power of Goddess Sita. He left his ego and he
became a real servent of the masters( rama and lakshmana).From they started
there journey to Ayodhya .They reached to theneri and decided to take rest for
some time. They stayed in a rocky area which is now know as ‘’Shanguchakrapara’’.
All battalions of monkeys including Jambavan
and Sugriva seated around
them on the rock. Now we can see big and small pits on the rock. People
in the area belives that these pits are buttocks rested areas of
monkeys.
At that time Sitadevi feel very thirsty, they
searched for drinking water around the area. They didn’t get it. Sree Rama told
Lakshmana to arrow nearby place to make a big pit to get water. But the water came from the pit was
muddy in colour which is not drinkable. Then Sree Rama put an arrow and the water
came as an artesian well like and the water started flowing like fountain. When
the water started coming from Ganga, goddess Ganga devi send one of his
deciple neer kumizhi (water bubble) through this water to thenari. After
reaching at thenari she saw sree rama standing there, she bowed sree rama and
she gave the news to ganga devi. But sree rama told there, since you come over
here you stay here itself and look after the people in thenari. And now she is
called as neerkumizhi amman and also kown as thrikkumuzhi amman. And they made a well the on the artesian
water and they placed a bull statue and opening it’s mouth nearby the well and
the water will be flowing through the mouth of the bull. The bull statue is in
top of the well. And flowing water throughout the year.
Sreerama, Lakshmana and Sita came to
madhyaranya siva temple and worshipped Lord Shiva and they started their
journey back. During Tippu sultan’s period in south india he damaged almost
hindu temples. At that time this temple also got damaged. And the renewal of
temple started during 2003 by thenari people. Within 2 years the construction
had finished and 2005 temple kumbabisheka was done. The most speciality of the
new siva temple is the linga of shiva is made by parasurama. While renewal the
village people tried to put new shiv linga they failed to remove the old version.
So they believes that it is a most powerful one. But rest of the whole statues
like subramania , Vishnu, kaasi viswanatha, moolaganapathy, ayyappa, neerkumuzhi,
sapthamathrukal all are new ones. The big lotus pond nearby the temple is also
fomous. It is also called homakunda. There is a small well inside the temple
that well is called agnikunda.
The most of thenari villagers are Farmers,
cotton weavers, carpenters and labours. Upper middle class, middle class and
lower class people are more. Main language used in this village is Malayalam
and few people in tamil (mainly weavers) and telegu(lingayath) spoken people
also there.There is a highschool, avyurvedic hospital and a M.C.H centre in
this village.
The major transportation
service to this village is private bus service, it connects palakkad via
thenari to kozhinjampara. This beautiful village is 15 kilometers away from
palakkad.
The nearby towns to this village are palakkad, kozhinjampara
and chittiur.
