SUCHINDRAM TEMPLE-8

HAVE A NICE DAY!

THAANUMAALAYAN 

            SRI.S.V.VARADARAJAN

       The next story relates to an incident in Kanyakumari temple near Suchindram temple. In olden days a demon Banasura was creating trouble for all the three worlds.The celestial Devas prayed to Parasakthi for succour. There was  a curse on Banasura by which Lord Brahma had ordained that the demon was to meet his end in the hands of a spinster. Therefore Goddess Devi had taken the form of an unmarried woman and was seated in Kanyakumari. Lord Thanumalaya, having his abode in Suchindram nearby, wanted to marry Goddess Devi and so the marriage was fixed for a day in the night. Sage Narada coming to know of this engagement, began to think that if this marriage took place, Banasura could not be killed and so wanted to stop this marriage. He cleverly took the form of a cock on the road from Suchindram to Kanyakumari and began crowing as if it was dawn time. Lord Thanumalaya who was passing that way for attending his marriage with Devi thought that night time was already over and that it was dawn and he was late for the marriage which cannot take place after mid midnight. So, he retraced his steps and went back to Suchindram without marrying the Devi. The Goddess therefore continued to be seated there as a spinster and even now we worship her there in this form. Thereafter, banasura was annihilated  by the Goddess and She saved the Devas. Even today we can see on the sea beach in Kanyakumari the place where the cock did the crowing.


To be continued