How Kartikeya got here residence

By Express News Service

It was Skanda Shashti final week, which brings to thoughts an incredible story about how Kartikeya unites the North and South in a preferred Delhi landmark referred to as Uttara Swami Malai or ‘Malai Mandir’ (hill temple). If we step again from present-day politics, we’re free to benefit from the story for what it’s—the respectable lore of the land. Murugan, the poetry-loving warrior god, additionally referred to as Kartikeya, Subrahmanya, Kumara and Skanda, is the darling deity of the South. 

There are historical temples to him all around the Deccan, and new temples in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK, the USA and Canada. But for years, the one temples to him within the North, of relative obscurity, had been at Pehowa close to the Punjab-Haryana border, the place Kartikeya is a bachelor god, and at Chamba in Himachal Pradesh. Women weren’t allowed at Pehowa, probably due to the turbulent historical past of the area.

However, Kartikeya was as soon as extensively worshipped throughout North and East India, and in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Kashmir. Old sculptures and texts inform us so. He was the favorite god of the Yaudheyas, the warlike clans of Haryana and Punjab. A department of the Yaudheyas, referred to as Mahamayurakas, had been champion horsemen and horse-breeders round fashionable Rohtak metropolis in Haryana. 

It says so within the Mahabharata, within the part referred to as the Rajasuya Parva. ‘Rohitka’ as Rohtak was as soon as recognized, was apparently Kartikeya’s favorite metropolis within the northern plains. Ancient Buddhist texts are additionally recognized to speak about Kartikeya’s recognition within the North. 

Sri Krishna says of his personal greatest qualities within the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter Ten, Verse Twenty-four, ‘Senaninaam aham Skanda’, ‘Of generals, I am Skanda’. In the Valmiki Ramayana, when Kausalya blesses Sri Rama earlier than he departs to the forest, the primary divinity she invokes is Skanda.

Love for Murugan burned within the hearts of some younger Tamilians who moved to Delhi within the Forties. They noticed Skanda Shashti with fervour and sang from the Tiruppugazh and Thevaram. They carried with them, like a treasured jewel, the traditional shadaakshari or six-syllable mantra, ‘Om Saravana Bhava’, simply as they carried the highly effective panchaakshari or five-syllable mantra, ‘Namas Shivaya’.

They had been easy, salaried folks, not maharajas or rich retailers who may construct and endow temples. But a fantastic ambition arose in them to construct a temple to Murugan in Delhi. Years handed. They appeared for an appropriate hillock to construct it since Kartikeya temples are sometimes atop a kunram or hill. In 1961, they noticed a hillock of untamed scrubland on the outskirts of Delhi, within the space now referred to as Ramakrishnapuram. A devotee had a dream that an outdated man took him to that hillock and vanished, saying, “This is my home”. Taking that as affirmation, the group sought permission to construct. Old ASI maps marked it as ‘RP’, which means ‘religious place’. They had been astounded to find the ruins of an historical shivala or Shiva temple on that website, over a thousand years outdated. 

They additionally discovered {that a} medieval chieftain referred to as Surajmal had wished to make a pleasure pavilion there, however his father had a dream in regards to the ruined shivala and forbade him. Now, one other dream had found the place.

Forming a registered society as per regulation, the devotees purchased the location for Rs. 25,000. But how had been they to construct a correct South Indian temple with all its assets and working prices? Miraculously, the trigger discovered help throughout society from the very best to the humblest. People gave small sums, saying, “Take this for a few bricks at least.” Then, the large weapons stepped in. There was a beneficiant contribution by the Government of Tamil Nadu. The Central Government supported it, with the participation of two Prime Ministers, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi, and President R Venkataraman.

Meanwhile, what in regards to the central picture within the sanctum? The Kanchi Mahaswami informed the temple committee to discover a sure block of granite with its nook minimize off within the mattress of the river Tamaraparani. By ‘chance’, they had been in a position to find that very rock. An outdated, bedridden man, additionally discovered by ‘chance’, informed them its location, heard from the village lore of his youth. He wept with pleasure when informed the aim, saying, “Now I know why I have stayed alive so long, I can die happily now.” 

When the rock was introduced out, V Ganapati Sthapati, the grasp stone carver, discovered that it was good in line with the foundations of the Shilpa Shastra. The sthapati did such a positive job that he was given the National Award subsequent 12 months. The picture, referred to as Somaskanda Murti, was duly put in, and kumbhabhishekam or consecration carried out in June 1973, with M S Subbulakshmi singing. In this unbelievable style, Kartikeya got here again to the North, to the Republic’s very capital.

It was Skanda Shashti final week, which brings to thoughts an incredible story about how Kartikeya unites the North and South in a preferred Delhi landmark referred to as Uttara Swami Malai or ‘Malai Mandir’ (hill temple). If we step again from present-day politics, we’re free to benefit from the story for what it’s—the respectable lore of the land. Murugan, the poetry-loving warrior god, additionally referred to as Kartikeya, Subrahmanya, Kumara and Skanda, is the darling deity of the South. 

There are historical temples to him all around the Deccan, and new temples in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK, the USA and Canada. But for years, the one temples to him within the North, of relative obscurity, had been at Pehowa close to the Punjab-Haryana border, the place Kartikeya is a bachelor god, and at Chamba in Himachal Pradesh. Women weren’t allowed at Pehowa, probably due to the turbulent historical past of the area.

However, Kartikeya was as soon as extensively worshipped throughout North and East India, and in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Kashmir. Old sculptures and texts inform us so. He was the favorite god of the Yaudheyas, the warlike clans of Haryana and Punjab. A department of the Yaudheyas, referred to as Mahamayurakas, had been champion horsemen and horse-breeders round fashionable Rohtak metropolis in Haryana. 

It says so within the Mahabharata, within the part referred to as the Rajasuya Parva. ‘Rohitka’ as Rohtak was as soon as recognized, was apparently Kartikeya’s favorite metropolis within the northern plains. Ancient Buddhist texts are additionally recognized to speak about Kartikeya’s recognition within the North. 

Sri Krishna says of his personal greatest qualities within the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter Ten, Verse Twenty-four, ‘Senaninaam aham Skanda’, ‘Of generals, I am Skanda’. In the Valmiki Ramayana, when Kausalya blesses Sri Rama earlier than he departs to the forest, the primary divinity she invokes is Skanda.

Love for Murugan burned within the hearts of some younger Tamilians who moved to Delhi within the Forties. They noticed Skanda Shashti with fervour and sang from the Tiruppugazh and Thevaram. They carried with them, like a treasured jewel, the traditional shadaakshari or six-syllable mantra, ‘Om Saravana Bhava’, simply as they carried the highly effective panchaakshari or five-syllable mantra, ‘Namas Shivaya’.

They had been easy, salaried folks, not maharajas or rich retailers who may construct and endow temples. But a fantastic ambition arose in them to construct a temple to Murugan in Delhi. Years handed. They appeared for an appropriate hillock to construct it since Kartikeya temples are sometimes atop a kunram or hill. In 1961, they noticed a hillock of untamed scrubland on the outskirts of Delhi, within the space now referred to as Ramakrishnapuram. A devotee had a dream that an outdated man took him to that hillock and vanished, saying, “This is my home”. Taking that as affirmation, the group sought permission to construct. Old ASI maps marked it as ‘RP’, which means ‘religious place’. They had been astounded to find the ruins of an historical shivala or Shiva temple on that website, over a thousand years outdated. 

They additionally discovered {that a} medieval chieftain referred to as Surajmal had wished to make a pleasure pavilion there, however his father had a dream in regards to the ruined shivala and forbade him. Now, one other dream had found the place.

Forming a registered society as per regulation, the devotees purchased the location for Rs. 25,000. But how had been they to construct a correct South Indian temple with all its assets and working prices? Miraculously, the trigger discovered help throughout society from the very best to the humblest. People gave small sums, saying, “Take this for a few bricks at least.” Then, the large weapons stepped in. There was a beneficiant contribution by the Government of Tamil Nadu. The Central Government supported it, with the participation of two Prime Ministers, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi, and President R Venkataraman.

Meanwhile, what in regards to the central picture within the sanctum? The Kanchi Mahaswami informed the temple committee to discover a sure block of granite with its nook minimize off within the mattress of the river Tamaraparani. By ‘chance’, they had been in a position to find that very rock. An outdated, bedridden man, additionally discovered by ‘chance’, informed them its location, heard from the village lore of his youth. He wept with pleasure when informed the aim, saying, “Now I know why I have stayed alive so long, I can die happily now.” 

When the rock was introduced out, V Ganapati Sthapati, the grasp stone carver, discovered that it was good in line with the foundations of the Shilpa Shastra. The sthapati did such a positive job that he was given the National Award subsequent 12 months. The picture, referred to as Somaskanda Murti, was duly put in, and kumbhabhishekam or consecration carried out in June 1973, with M S Subbulakshmi singing. In this unbelievable style, Kartikeya got here again to the North, to the Republic’s very capital.