Let us partake of whatever comes our way. The Gods who gave us birth seem to be behind it. Recovering his calm, Datta told Leela, “Our unwise conduct doesn’t appear to be of our doing. “After I take birth as a buffalo, you will be born as a bull and satisfy my unfulfilled desires.” Insist you are a mahishi, you will be born as a mahishi (buffalo) among the Asuras in your next life.” His keenness in overcoming desire had done little to rid him of anger. Angry at her unwieldiness, Datta cursed her. “I am your mahishi (queen),” she cried over and over again. “How can you desert me?” Leela was furious. In the end, an exasperated Datta decided to leave regardless of what Leela felt. In no mood to give up her pleasure pursuits, Leela begged that they live in the world a little longer. Disinclined towards the pursuit of pleasure, he turned to his wife, “Let us depart from this world and go back to where we came from. After many years spent fulfilling worldly pleasures, Datta remembered his divine origins. Great enjoyment followed in the company of each other. Directed by P Subramaniam, the dialogues. Datta and Leela fell in love and got married. Swami Ayyappan, released on August 17, 1975, was produced by Subramaniam Religious Trust and shot at Merryland Studios and around the Sabarimala Temple. The Goddesses, Saraswathi, Lakshmi and Parvathi, who had accompanied their husbands, became one through their yogic powers and took birth as the daughter of the rishi, Gaalava. A handsome youth emerged from the radiance emitting out of the three Gods. What follows is my own abridged retelling of the stories found in Rajaratnam.īrahma, Vishnu and Shiva descended on the world to establish dharma. Pyappan’s book, Lord Ayyappan (1966), and stories of the deity found in Bhavan’s Journal, he writes, are the sources for his rendering. The storytelling form - that of an elder narrating stories to children who interrupt freely with questions and doubts - allows Rajaratnam to not take chances with his readers and elaborate and clarify details and meanings as the story unfolds. Starting 1964, he wrote a column of retellings of mythological and other lore for children in Sudha, the popular Kannada weekly, for more than thirteen years.įeatured in this column, the 13 Ayyappan stories take the form of being narrated to a group of young boys over thirteen Sundays. GP Rajaratnam belongs to the small group of literary figures who write for children amidst their other writing commitments. When I recently came across the famous Kannada scholar and writer, GP Rajaratnam’s book, Ayyappan Swami Avara Kathegalu (Stories of Swami Ayyappan, 1977), I read it straightaway, chastising myself for having stayed ignorant about a major religious phenomenon all this while. The runners then proceeded on a special trail to another hill in a neighbouring village before coming back the following day.īut I remained uncurious about the Ayyappa myth all these years. I would wait with several others near the paddy fields down below, where the run halted for a while, when the garlanded, barefoot runners were greeted with cups of cardamom flavoured lime juice.
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