Punarjani Guha

Punarjani Guha rami ne mai tsawon mita 150 a cikin dutsen dutse wanda ke cikin Thiruvilwamala a cikin Gundumar Thrissur ta jihar Kerala a kudancin Indiya. Tana kusa da kilomita 2 kudu maso gabashin Haikali na Vilwadrinatha . 

 Al'ada 
Ana iya yin al'ada ne kawai a kan Ekadasi kuma a ranar goma sha ɗaya ta kowane mako biyu na wata. Ana kiran ranar Guruvayur Ekadasi ko ranar Vrischika Ekadasi, a cikin watan Malayalam na Vrishchikam . Da farko mai bautar dole ne ya yi wanka a cikin Papanasini Theertham, maɓuɓɓugar ruwa kusa da dutsen. An yi imanin cewa yin noozhal ko yawo ta hanyar ramin daga wannan gefen zuwa wancan zai wanke dukkan zunubai kuma ta haka ne ya ba da damar mutum ya kai Moksha, ko 'yanci daga sake haihuwa.

 Labari 
A cewar labari, Ubangiji Parashurama ya kashe dangin Kshatriya a shafin yanar gizon Vilwadrinatha na zamani. An yi wa kunya, Parashurama ya kafara ta hanyar samar da gunkin Vishnu ga fatalwowi na waɗanda aka kashe. Ta hanyar wannan, fatalwowi sun sami darshan, amma ba su sami ceto ba. Ya tafi Brihaspati, guru na devas, don magani. Brihaspati ya ce yayin da fatalwowi suka haifi haihuwa da yawa saboda karma (aiki), ba za su sami ceto ba. Don haka, Ubangiji Parasurama ya kira Vishwakarma, masanin gine-gine na allahntaka. Ya zo tare da Indra da Brihaspati. Kamar yadda wurin fatalwowi bai kamata ya kasance kusa da haikalin ba, sun sami wurin da ya dace da nesa. A can, Vishwakarma ya gano kasancewar Trimurtis, kuma Brihaspati ya fara gudanar da Poojas. A wannan lokacin, Ubangiji Parasurama ya gina tanki mai suna 'Ganapathi Theertham' a farkon. A cikin lokacin da aka kammala ginin, ya gina wasu tankuna biyu, wato 'Papanasini' da 'Pathala Theertham'. Indra ya gina 'Ambutheertham' tare da kibiyoyinsa kuma Airavata, motarsa, ya gina 'Kombutheerthum' tare da hakora. Farin sun shiga cikin kogon kuma sun sami ceto.

A lokaci guda, wasu Brahmins ma sun isa can, kuma sun bayyana sha'awar su yi tafiya. Ubangiji Parasurama ya gaya musu cewa mutane ma za su iya yin hakan, amma a rana ɗaya kawai: rana ta 11 (Ekadasi) a cikin watan Vrischikam, sauran kwanakin kawai ga fatalwowi. Brahmins sun isa a wannan rana, sun gudanar da dukkan bukukuwan, sun shiga cikin kogon, kuma sun sami ceto.

Akwai labarin da ya danganci Mahabharata da ke da alaƙa da wannan kogon. Pandavas sun isa nan kuma sun shiga cikin kogon. Sun zo nan don yin bukukuwan Vedic ga kakanninsu, da kuma wasu dangi da aka kashe a Yaƙin Kurukshetra. Sun yi tarpanam da sauran bukukuwan, kuma sun tsarkake gidajen ibada da yawa a kusa, gami da Haikali na Ivor Madom a Pambady (kada a rikita shi da wurin da sunan daya a Gundumar Kottayam) wanda ke da gidan Ubangiji Krishna (kalmar 'ivor / aivar' tana nufin 'mutane biyar', kuma sunan ya zo ne saboda Pandavas guda biyar suka tsarkake shi), da kuma gidajen Kothakurissi da Someswaram da ke da Ubangiji Shiva.

Don shahararren bikin 'noozhal' (guguwa), wanda ya dace da Guruvayoor Ekadasi, dole ne mutum ya bi tsananin al'ada. Ya kamata masu bautar su yi azumi kuma su kasance a cikin haikalin a ranar da ta gabata. Da karfe 4 na safe a ranar Ekadasi, firistoci sun buɗe haikalin bayan sun yi wanka a Bhagavathichira, kuma sun fara wasu poojas a ƙofar kogon. Bayan darshan, dole ne mutum ya ci gaba zuwa Ganapathi Theertham, kuma ya yi wanka a can. Daga baya, ya kamata masu bautar su yi wanka a Papanasini (kada a rikita su da kogin da ke da sunan iri ɗaya a Thirunelli), Pathala Theertham, Ambutheertham, da Kombutheertham a cikin wannan tsari, kuma ya kamata su shiga kogon ba tare da bushewa ba. Matsayin farawa na kogon yana kusa da 6 ft a tsawo, kuma mutane na yau da kullun na iya zuwa can ba tare da wata matsala ba. Daga baya, dole ne mutum ya sunkuyar da kansa. Wasu karin ma'ana, mutum dole ne ya zauna ya yi tafiya. Har ila yau, wani abu ya kara, ainihin saukowa ya fara. A wasu lokuta, babu iska da haske, kuma mutum dole ne ya nemi taimakon wadanda ke gaba da baya. A ƙarshe, bayan hawa wasu matakai, mutum ya shiga waje, kuma ya sake zuwa Papanasini don wanka. Mutane na yau da kullun ba za su iya yin hakan ba, saboda yana buƙatar matsanancin sadaukarwa da ƙarfin zuciya. Duk da wannan babbar duhu da sauri, abin mamaki ne cewa babu dabbobi masu tsattsauran ra'ayi da dabbobi masu rarrafe a nan, kuma babu wanda ya mutu a cikin kogon. Maza ne kawai aka ba su damar yin hakan. 

Bayan babbar gobara a 1861, irin wannan kogo ya bayyana a yammacin nada. Wasu mutane sun yi ƙoƙari su bincika wannan kogon, amma an dakatar da yunkurin saboda matakan da ba su da iyaka, da kuma duhu mai yawa. An kuma yi imanin cewa akwai wata hanyar da aka ɓoye a cikin haikalin wanda ke kai mu Haikalin Thirunelli a Gundumar Wayanad.

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