Born and raised in the land of Kodagu, Ponni Nadi, after her maidenhood, wanted to reach her husband, Samudra Raja.

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 Chapter 10 - The Little Astrologer

Born and raised in the land of Kodagu, Ponni Nadi, after her maidenhood, wanted to reach her husband, Samudra Raja. She hurriedly crossed forests and hills, over rocks and ravines. As she approached Samudra Raja, her heart and body were filled with excitement that she was going to see the hero. She went a little further, and two arms appeared to embrace her lover. She jumped and ran away, spreading both arms out wide. But two arms did not seem enough for the passion that was swelling in her heart; her arms of desire grew to ten, twenty, a hundred. She eagerly extended all those arms and approached Samudra Raja. What decorations did the Chola nurses make for the bride who went to meet her husband of desire in this way? Oh! How many beautiful green saris did they dress her in? How many colorful flowers did they adorn her with? What kind of fragrant fragrances did they sprinkle? Ah! How can we describe the splendor of the pine trees and the kadamba trees that grew on both banks, showering them with precious flowers? Can the showers of the gods and the flowers be compared to this?

O golden river! What maiden would not be delighted to see you! What maiden would not be delighted to see your bridal attire?

Isn't it natural for women to flock to you, just as all the virgins in the village surround a bride?

One of the golden arms that Ponni extends with desire to embrace her husband is called Arisilar! There is a beautiful river called Arisilar very close to the southern side of the Kaveri. Those who come from a little distance should know that such a river exists only by being told. The beautiful green trees that grow thickly on both sides hide the river. Arisilar can be said to be the first royal maiden who left her hometown and did not know anything about it. There is no comparison to the beauty of that maiden river in this world.

Good; May the lovers, forgetting the thought of Andhapuram, come closer to the Arisi River with us. May they enter among the trees that have grown so close to them like an oasis! Oh, what a beautiful sight this is! Doesn't it seem to add beauty to beauty and sweeten nectar?

Chapter 10 Kudanthai Astrologer

Who are these women seated in a colorful boat shaped like a swan, so intricately painted? Who is this woman who is the center of them, like a queen born to rule the seven worlds, like the full moon among the stars, with a crown? Who is Shantasundari sitting next to her with a veena in her hand? Who are these Gandharva women who sing music with sweet voices and mix the flood of the river with the flood of the song? One of them is Meena Lohani; another is Neela Lohani; another is a lotus face; another is a lotus petal; Ah, you who retrieve the veena, you may have been looking at the beauty of her fingers resembling the veena moving here and there on the strings.

What is the sweetness of the song they sing? Even the flood of the river has stopped its sound to listen to it? Even the parrots and cuckoos that live in the trees on the banks of the river are immersed in longing with their mouths open! What is it about those born as human beings, the fortunate ones with ears to hear, that they are ecstatic when they hear that nectar? Let us ask what those women who come in the boat are singing:

The beetle is excellent,

Wearing a pearl dress

You woke up with your black eyes and walked away! Kaveri!

The black-eyed man woke up.

Everything that happened is yours.

I know that the scepter will not bend, O Kaveri!

Poovar Solai Peacock

Understand the music of the quilts.

You walked near the Kamar Malai, live! Kaveri!

Kamar Malai Arugasayya

Whatever happened, your husband

We are the ones who open the door.

I know, live! Cauvery

Have we not heard these nectarine Tamil songs somewhere? Yes. These are the verses in the Silappadhikaram. However, when these women sing, they acquire a wildness and charm that have never been seen before. They are like the dear friends of the golden river! That is why they sing with such ecstasy and emotion. Oh my! How do singing and acting mix and flow like nectar from their voices? Singing, acting, acting, music! All that is nothing. This is some kind of magical art! A magic trick that makes both the singers and the listeners go crazy!

The boat floats by and stops at a little clearing where the trees have given it some space. Two women disembark; one of them is a woman of majestic appearance, worthy of being the queen of the seven worlds. The other is a girl who plays the lute with her fingers. Although both are beautiful, there is a great difference in the beauty of one and the other. One has the majestic beauty of the red lotus flower. The other has the sweet fragrance of the kumudha flower.

She is beautiful. One is the full moon; another is the morning crescent. One is the dancing peacock; another is the singing cuckoo; another is Indrani; another is the beloved of Cupid. One is the swift Ganga; another is the meandering Kaveri.

Without leaving the readers in a state of further doubt, we will tell you who these two are. The majestic-looking Ganga is the wealthy daughter of King Sundara Chola, Kundavai. She is the sister of Arulmozhivarman, who is famous in history as Rajaraja. Madarasi, who was revered by the people as the princess of the king and the youngest princess, was a great Tamil woman who supported the greatness of the Chola kingdom. The brave woman who raised Rajaraja's son Rajendran and made him a brave hero and a king, and the other, Kundavai, was a princess of the Kodumbalur clan who sought the fortune of being with Pratavai. Later, she would become an unparalleled fortune in history. Today, she embodies modesty, sweetness and gentleness.

These two girls got off the boat and onto the shore. Kundavai looked at the other female friends and said, "You stay here. We will be back in an hour!" All of these female friends were princesses born in the palaces of various petty kings in the divine Tamil Nadu, and had come to the Pazalayarai palace, considering it a blessing to be the friend of Kundavai Devi. Now, when Kundavai took only one of them and went down to the shore, saying, "I will go and come back soon," disappointment and resentment appeared in their eyes.

A chariot drawn by horses was waiting on the bank. "Vanathi! Get into the chariot!" Kundavai said to her friend. When Vanathi got in, she too got in. The chariot moved swiftly.

"Sister! Where are we going? Can you tell me?" Vanathi asked.

"What's wrong? We're going to the astrologer's house in Kudanthai!" said Kunthavai.

"Why are we going to the astrologer's house, sister? To ask about what?"

"Why else? Just to ask about you. You've been feeling like you're in a coma for a few months now, and your body is getting thinner? Just to ask when you'll get over your coma and get better!"

"Sister! You are very blessed; I am not sick. Don't go to ask about me, let's go back!"

"No, mother, no! I'm not going to ask about you, I'm going to ask about myself."

"What are you going to ask about yourself? What are you going to ask a fortune teller?"

"I'm going to ask if I'll get married or if I'll just spend my time as a virgin until the end."

"Sister! Why should I go and ask a fortune teller for this? Shouldn't I ask my own heart? You should just shake your head! Wouldn't the kings of the fifty-six countries from the Himalayas to the first peak of Kumari compete and come running? Why, they will even come from countries across the sea! Which brave prince has been given the fortune to win your hand? You should decide that, shouldn't you!"

"Even if you assume that everything you say is true, there is one obstacle. If you marry the prince of any country, won't you have to go to his country one day? I don't want to go to any other country from this Chola country where the Polli River flows! I have taken a vow that I will never go to any other country."

"That's not a hindrance; any prince who marries them will be a slave at their feet. Even if he wants to stay here, he'll leave."

"Ah! Are you saying we should bring a prince from another country into our town like we would catch a mouse and hold it in our lap? Do you know what kind of trouble that would cause?"

"Anyway, those who are born as girls will one day get married."

Want?"

"No scripture says so, Vanathi! Look at Avaiyar! Didn't she live for a long time as an eternal virgin, an immortal Kalishwari?"

"You, O Avaiyar, became an old woman at a young age by the grace of God."

Isn't it like that?"

"Okay, if I'm going to get married like that, I'll marry an orphaned Chola warrior. Such a man won't have a kingdom and won't ask me to take him to another country. He'll stay right here in the Chola country..."

"Then why don't you leave this Chola country?"

"I will never go to heaven, even if they tell me to make me a queen."

"My nose has finally calmed down today."

"What's that?"

"If you go to another country, I must come with you. I cannot leave you at home. At the same time, I have no desire to leave this prosperous Chola country."

"Marriage, but you have to break up?"

"I'm not going to do poetry. Sister!"

"Oh my! Where did all the advice you gave me go?"

"I know everything, Adi Kalli. Do you think you can throw dirt in my eyes? You have no admiration for the Chola nation. Didn't the Chola nation, which you desire, go to war with Eelam, carrying sword and shield? Did you think I didn't know your secrets?"

"Sister, sister! Am I so foolish? Where is the sun? Where is the morning dew? What is the use of a drop of dew wishing for the sun's friendship?"

"A snowflake is small! The sun is big and bright! But does a snowflake hold such a sun captive within itself, or not?"

Vanathi said in a voice full of excitement and curiosity, "Is that what you mean! Are you saying that even a dewdrop can reach the sun?" Then suddenly, she felt depressed. "The dewdrop yearns. It even captures the sun. But what is the result? It receives its due punishment for a short time. It dries in the sun and disappears without a trace!"

'That's wrong, Vanathi! Seeing the desire of the dewdrop, the sun unites the dewdrop with itself. He thinks that the dewdrop, which is the object of his desire, should not be seen by other men, and when night comes, he lets it out again. Doesn't the hidden dewdrop come back and rise again?

"Sister! You're saying all this to comfort me."

"So, there is a flaw in my inner mind, Soylu. I haven't been home for so long, have I? That's why I'm going to the Kudanthai astrologer."

"If there is something wrong with my mind, what is the use of going to an astrologer to ask about it?" Vanathi sighed.

The house of the Kudanthai astrologer was located in a secluded spot near the Kali temple in a corner of the city. Without entering the city of Kudanthai, the Buddha went around the city and reached the house. Seeing how the charioteer drove the chariot there without any hindrance, it seemed that he must have driven the chariot there many times before.

The astrologer and one of his disciples waited anxiously at the door. The astrologer welcomed and entertained the visitors with great devotion and respect.

*Perumati! Mother, who came as one with Kalaimaka and Thirumaka! Welcome! Welcome! It is a blessing that you have made this poor man's hut. You have come looking for this hut again! He said.

"Astrologer! No one else will come here looking for you at this time, right?" said Kuntavai.

They won't come, you know! Not many people come looking for me these days.

When the world is in trouble, more people come to see astrologers. Now, under the rule of their father Sundara Chola, the people have no trouble at all. Everyone lives happily with all the comforts and conveniences. Why do you come to see me? said the astrologer.

"Then you're saying that I came looking for you because I'm in some kind of trouble!"

"No, Perumati! No, no! What blind man would say that the daughter of the king of Pazhayarai, who is also a wealthy man, has come to trouble! Since there are no troubles for people in the world, only this poor astrologer has come to trouble. He is not the only one who will be looked after. Therefore, you have come like a goddess to solve the problem of this poor man, mother! You should have come inside the hut. It is a waste of time to keep yourself here," the astrologer said evenly.

Kundavai, looking at the charioteer, said, "Take the chariot closer to the temple and park it in the shade of the banyan tree!"

Sathikam Full Astrology

Then Kundava and Vanathi went inside the house to be guided by the astrologer.

The astrologer looked at our disciple and warned him, "Father! Stand like a gallows in the house and don't let anyone in if they try to escape!"

The astrologer's hall had been decorated to welcome the princess. A picture of the goddess was displayed on a niche on the wall, and two pedestals were ready for her to sit on. The lamp was lit. The figures were shining here and there. Boards with zodiac signs and parchments were scattered around.

After both women sat on the pedestals, the astrologer also sat down.

"Please tell me what the reason for your visit is, please!" he said.

"Astrologer! Can't you find out that too by looking at your own astrology?" said Kunthai.

"May it be so, Mother!" said the astrologer, closing his eyes and chanting some mantra for a while.

Then he opened his eyes and said, "Komati, you have come today specifically to ask about the horoscope of this beautiful woman. Is it true that the grace of Goddess Parasakthi tells you this?"

"Aha! Wonderful! What do you call your power? Yes, astrologer! I came to ask about this girl. A year ago, she came to the palace of the old man. She was very cheerful for about eight months. Among my friends, she was the one who was laughing, playing, and lively. For four months, something has been wrong with her. She often gets tired and seems to be in a daze. She has forgotten how to laugh. She says she is not sick. I don't know what answer she will give if her parents come and ask her tomorrow."

"Mother! Isn't this the wealthy daughter of the Kodumbalur clan? Isn't her name Vanathi?" said the astrologer.

"Yes; you know everything!"

"I also have the horoscope of this princess. I have kept it! I need to wait a little longer!" he said, and the astrologer opened an old box next to it and read it for a while. Then he took out a horoscope note from it.

He took it and looked at it carefully.