The Smoke -Industry, Divine and Fragrant.
Lest you get the impression that Azhundoor was a purely pastoral locality, Sri Kalian tells you that Industry too flourished. The smoke from several sugarcane crushing plants, small and big, rose up in the sky to blot out the sunlight, says Azhwar??Aalai pugayaal azhal kadirai maraikkum veedi Azhundoore?. Some of you must have visited these sugarcane plants?not the unseemly giants of today which spew out toxic smoke, but the smaller ones, which emit not only non-polluting, but also extremely fragrant smoke. It is this type of environment-friendly smoke that rose up in Azhundoor and the cumulative emissions from all these mini-factories was enough to serve as a blanket over the Sun. Was this the only source of smoke at Terazhundoor? No, says Sri Parakala. Smoke emanated from several sources, all of them, of course, non-toxic and fragrant. The smoke caused by offering Aahutis of pure ghee in the sacrificial fire, to the accompaniment of the relative Veda mantras like ?Agnaye svaahaa, Somaaya svaahaa? etc., covers the entire divyadesam of Tiruvazhundoor, remarks Sri Kalian - ?anthanar tam aahutiyin pugayaar selvatthu ani
Azhundoore? At Terazhundoor, smoke emanating from burning akil (a fragrant wood which gives off extremely sweet-scented smoke) is so widespread and the manors from which it emanates so tall, that the smoke seems to mingle with puffy clouds populating the sky- ?akilin pugayaal
mugileykkum aniyaar veedi
Azhundoore? The smoke is so dense and so pervasive that it resembles rain-bearing clouds, giving an impression of imminent precipitation. Thus, three sources of fragrant smoke have been identified by Sri Parakala, as indicated above--that originating from sugar factories, that emanating from the sacrificial fires of Yagas and Yagyas and the third from akil burned by women for drying and perfuming their hair. This paasuram gives the lie to the popular
impression that all industry in Srimate Sri LakshmiNrisimha divya paduka sevaka SrivanSatakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya nama: dasan, sadagopan azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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