You are the fruit.. Pazham nee appaa..
The Avvayar story which shows the lady saint as a mediator between the lord Murugan and his father Shiva after Murugan left his parents at Kailasam and lived alone in the Palani Hills seems to be a later addition to the lore.
Surely the period of Avvayar is much later than Agastya and Idumba who discovered Murugan at Palani earlier and had a glorious company.
The story is that Avvayar while wandering around..the place might be Palani too..found a boy sitting atop a jamun.. njaaval pazham tree.
The lady was hungry and it was hot in the midday.
The old lady asked the lad to throw down some fruits for her.
The impish boy asked..
" Grandmother, do you want hot fruits or cold fruits__ paatti ..shutta pazham venumaa sudaatha pazham venumaa? "
The granny was angry.. she thought the boy was making fun of her.
So being sure that a fruit from
a tree cannot be hot, she asked for the hot fruits.
The boy shook the branches of the tree and jamun fruits showered down.
The fruits were covered with dust.
So Avvai picked up the fruits and blew over them to remove the dust.
The naughty boy up the tree quipped.."Grandma the fruit is really hot is it not? You are blowing over them to make them cold."
The great lady then understood that the lad up in the tree was not an ordinary child.
It was the Son of Her lord Shiva.. the wonder child who was the personification of all the beauty anywhere and the sweet sweet language Tamil itself -Murugan
However the name Pazhani stuck to that place because the young Murugan had come there because a fruit was denied to him and his father lord Shiva who came in search of him told him "why should you ask for a fruit.?.you are yourself the fruit of all knowledge..pazham nee..பழம் நீ..
The Avvayar story which shows the lady saint as a mediator between the lord Murugan and his father Shiva after Murugan left his parents at Kailasam and lived alone in the Palani Hills seems to be a later addition to the lore.
Surely the period of Avvayar is much later than Agastya and Idumba who discovered Murugan at Palani earlier and had a glorious company.
The story is that Avvayar while wandering around..the place might be Palani too..found a boy sitting atop a jamun.. njaaval pazham tree.
The lady was hungry and it was hot in the midday.
The old lady asked the lad to throw down some fruits for her.
The impish boy asked..
" Grandmother, do you want hot fruits or cold fruits__ paatti ..shutta pazham venumaa sudaatha pazham venumaa? "
The granny was angry.. she thought the boy was making fun of her.
So being sure that a fruit from
a tree cannot be hot, she asked for the hot fruits.
The boy shook the branches of the tree and jamun fruits showered down.
The fruits were covered with dust.
So Avvai picked up the fruits and blew over them to remove the dust.
The naughty boy up the tree quipped.."Grandma the fruit is really hot is it not? You are blowing over them to make them cold."
The great lady then understood that the lad up in the tree was not an ordinary child.
It was the Son of Her lord Shiva.. the wonder child who was the personification of all the beauty anywhere and the sweet sweet language Tamil itself -Murugan
However the name Pazhani stuck to that place because the young Murugan had come there because a fruit was denied to him and his father lord Shiva who came in search of him told him "why should you ask for a fruit.?.you are yourself the fruit of all knowledge..pazham nee..பழம் நீ..
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