aruvidangaL pozhil
thazhuvi
The Vertical
Growth
If we deeply think on why apartments
are coming up, the obvious answer is shortage of space. In a given place,
the structures have spread horizontally and once the place is insufficient, the
buildings are being developed vertically. This is one of the tangible
transformation of urban centres.
These go up,as if scratching the sky and
hence termed as 'sky scrapers'.
The rich horticultural heritage manifest
as various flowers -lotus, senkazhunEr, kaidhai flowers and so on and so forth.
They spread horizontally initially and also grow on the ponds hither and
thither. Once, these space is filled up, these gardens grow vertically filling
up the space in the sky. This vertical growth has been visualised by sri
thirumangai AzhwAr in thiru-nAngUr arimEya viNNagaram first pAsuram but not in
the context of concrete jungle but in relation to natural
vegetation.
This is aptly described by sri periya
vAchAn piLLai as follows:
"... malargaL, migu
thAmaraigaL .pUkkaL migundhuLLa thAyaigaL, sen-kazhunEr,thAmaraigaL, ivai
parandha poigaigaL dhOrum avagAsangaL dhOrum viLanga,ingu idam illAmaiyAlEa
sOlaiyAnadhu parappaiyudaiya idam adaithukoNdu Ongi..."
The various flowers like lotus,
senkazhunEr kaidhai etc. spread themselves on the various ponds and due to
shortage the gardens grow up into the sky and fill up the space displaying
splendour and beauty.
"...malargaL migu kaidhaigaL
sen-kazhunEr thAmaraigaL thadangaL dhorum thigazha, aruvidangaL pozhil thazhuvi ezhil thigazhum nAngUr"
3-10-1;
Perhaps
the
THE HANGING GARDENS of
thirunAngUr
(to be continued)
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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