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The ever-flowing
and life-giving rivers are given the honorific Title - Jeevanadis. They are
equated with Goddeses and worshipped in several ways. Mother Kaveri he adored
its soures with great demoshnal fervour.
The actual birth
place of this sacred river is astonishingly small and staggers the imagination
a little, since it is only a perry, pretty little lake measuring two by two feet
in area. It has stepson four sides. A fettle further away is located another -
fairly a big tank with masonary work and measures thirty by thirty feet in
extent. It is two feet in depth. It is here people take bath during the ordinary
and festival days. It is into this water percolates from the small one
situated above and its flow goes by the name of Cauvery - a little stream in the
beginning, but gets broader and broader as rivulets joint it from several places
on its course. When it reaches Ratnakara - Bay of Bengal - her own Lord, it is
majestic in shape; graceful in flow; broad in size and sacred in contents. The
surrounding area of the origin studded with tall trees and green verdure is an
eyeful sight that delights for
ever, and elevates when surveyed, why the very reminiscence itself flashes an
unearthly splendour on the mental screen even after decades of visitation.
Normally people offer prayers first to this pretty
tank, and during the Tula festival, they worship it with fruits, flowers, saffron etc. treating it as a
bride going to meet her groom - the Samudraraja.
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