Such was the magic He plays to captivate the aspiring jivātma. When her brothers arrive they find only a strange tree there. Murugan at once transforms himself into a vengai tree. He ignores her accusation with a contemptuous laugh.Īnnoyed at his impudent behavior, Valli cries out for her brothers. Indignant Valli drives him away accusing him of trespassing when a maiden is alone. When she challenges the stranger, he claims that he is tracking a doe. Lord Murugan first appears to Valli as a handsome young Neolithic hunter who emerges from the jungle into the millet field that Valli is guarding. Their eventful romance then begins in the deep forest. He then reports to Lord Kārttikeya to tell her about the girl’s beauty and devotion and to remind Him of His vow to wed her. Sage Nārada learns about Valli and her vow and goes there to observe her. They laugh and tease Valli whenever she says she vows never to touch any man, but only her Lord Murugan. All her girl friends talk about the boys they wish to marry, but Valli says she is interested in Murugan only, the god of hunter folk. Valli grew up to be a beautiful maiden with steadfast devotion and resolute determination to marry Lord Kārttikeya. Since they found her in a cluster of vaḷḷi kodi, they named her ‘Vaḷḷi’ (Tamil: வள்ளி "creeper, sweet potato plant"). He and his wife and their seven sons and had been longing for a daughter, so they joyfully adopted the girl child.
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Nambirājan, the hunter chief of that forest, found the abandoned infant crying in a patch of valli kodi creepers. Upon seeing the infant’s strange form so different from her own, the startled deer abandoned the child and fled.
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When the doe had reached her full term, she gave birth to a baby girl. A lovelorn glance at the doe by the sage in a passionate moment was all it took to impregnate the doe. He was living in the same forest where goddess Lakshmi had been born to wander about as a doe. So Lord Vishnu incarnated Himself on earth as Siva Muni, a dumb saint who was an ardent devotee of Lord Siva. Sundara Valli however was destined to take a more humble birth upon earth in a wild jungle. Amrita Valli in her next birth was born as Devasenā, daughter of Indra, the celestial King of Heaven. Accordingly, Lord Murugan vowed to marry them both in their next birth. She and her sister Amrita Valli both intensely yearned to marry Lord Kārttikeya and observed austere penances with this aim in mind.
In a previous birth Valli had been Sundara Valli, one of two daughters of Vishnu. According to the curse, Lord Vishnu would be born as a dumb saint and Lakshmi as a doe living in forests. Once a rishi named Kanva pronounced a curse upon Lord Vishnu and His consort Goddess Lakshmi, for they had been indifferent to him when he visited them in Vaikunta. No exposition of Kaumara philosophy would be complete without referring to the romance of Valli and Murugan. The timeless story of the divine courtship of Valli and Murugan forms the basis of many folk dramas in South India. In Neolithic times there once lived a tribal girl named Valli was whose heart was set upon eternal union with the god of the hunters, Lord Murugan. His worship is most prevalent in South India in the North He is known as Lord Skanda or Kārttikeya, the divine power of Siva manifested on earth. Lord Murugan (Tamil: the ‘Young and Tender One’) is cherished as the divine beloved son in households all across South India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and wherever Tamil people have settled. Here Malathi Jayaraman offers an abridged telling of the everlasting romance of Valli and Murugan. Because it remains an oral tradition, there are as many versions as there are tellers of the story. Finally, elements of puranic and Brahminical Hinduism were grafted onto the original purely Dravidian story. From the start, pandits and devotees alike of North and South have agreed that Tamil god Murugan and North Indian god Skanda or Kārttikeya are one and the same divinity. Later it became a central theme in Tamil Cankam literature even before the arrival of Sanskrit-speaking North Indian Brahmins and sages to South India some two thousand years ago. The Courtship and Wedding of Valli and MuruganĮditor’s note: Valli Kalyānam or the (courtship and) ‘wedding of Valli’ (to Murugan) is an age-old oral tradition of South India.
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