Kanthimathi-Nellaiyapper Temple

Nellaiappar Temple, Tirunelveli | Aalayangal Arputhangal | 14/04/2016 | Puthuyugam TV

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Kanthimathi (sametha) Nellaiappar ~ Tirunelveli *

There had been one legend, about this isthala Tirunelveli. Once, there lived one staunch devotee of lord Shiva, named as Vetha sonma at Tirunelveli. He actually came to Tirunelveli,due to the severe famine at his living place.So, he migrated to Tirunelveli, and running his day today life, not only for his stomach, but also engaged in daily prayer with the presiding deity of this isthala, lord Nellaiappar.
Veda sonma, had a daily custom of reeping the paddy from the field, and from that he used to prepare rice for the 'Nivethanam', that is food offered to the god, and had dedicated that with sincere heartfelt devotion to lord Nallaiappar.

Lord Shiva wanted to test his dedication, by having enacted a play, through which, lord Nellaiapper wanted to disclose his sincere devotion to this world.Very first, Veda sonma was being turned to poor, in order to stop him from his daily routine of paying his 'Nivethanam' to lord Nellaiapper. Even though,Veda sonma had been deeply affected by this holy play of lord Nellaiapper,he never tried to stop his devotional service, instead, he begged fresh paddy from the people, and had prepared rice from that, by nicely dried it and also ground it for the 'Nivethanam to lord Nellaiapper.

Things moved smoothly like this manner, and Veda sonma was also happy about his routine.But for that also, there appeared a new dimension of test to Veda sonma. One day, Veda sonma, after having collected the paddy from the people, had dried that paddy in front of the temple, and had gone for taking bath in the river.Suddenly and unexpectedly, a heavy downpour was there, and all the people were dancing with ecstasy, for they would have been escaped from the killing famine.But one man, Veda sonma ran to the temple with fear, that all the paddy would have been washed away by the rain water.

There in front of the temple, a strange phenomena was waiting for the arrival of Veda sonma. He hardly could believe his eyes, that the portion at which he dried the paddy, was seen with sunlight and the surrounding area had been flooded with rain water.This phenomena made him dance with gay and also this incident had been conveyed to the Pandyan king. Having seen that strange holy play of lord Nellaiapper, the Pandyan king termed that place as 'Nel veli', as lord Nellaiapper had protected the paddy from being washed away by the rain water. In Tamil language, 'Nel' means 'paddy' and 'Veli' means 'fence'. With the prefix of 'Thiru', as the mark of respect, that place has been now called as Thirunelveli.

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1. All the photographs, here used have been my own photos taken with my Nikon SLR D3100, when i had been there to Tirunelveli on 15-11-2013, which also had been the day of 'Prathosam'.
2. All these photos have been converted into movie clip by having used 'MemoriesOnTV3'.
3. The output of 'Mpg' video file has been converted into 'Fla' video file for the final upload into YouTube.
4. Regarding sound reproduction, here i have used 'NaturalReader' for the conversion of 'Text into Speech'.
5. For the background music, i have used YouTube Free Audio Library, in which i have selected 'Every_step' as the one for background music.
6. As true to my knowledge, all the contents here used have been my own contents.

Regards.

Selvaganapathy S