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Malayali Sadya – Kerala Traditional Feast
Malayali Sadya,Kerala,Traditional,Feast,
മലയാളി സദ്യ,മലയാളി,സദ്യ,ഡി.സി.,
അജിത്,നമ്പൂതിരി,നമ്പൂതിരി,
പത്മിനി അന്തർജ്ജനം,പാചകം,അന്തർജ്ജനം,
Ajith Namboothiri,Namboothiri,nambudiri,nambuthiri,namboodiri,Padmini Antharjanam,Antharjanam,Aattupuram,puthukkai number,kattipoyil,Nileshwaram,Payyannur,Kannur,Kasaragod,vidwan,APG,A.P.G,ona Sadya,vishu Sadya,utsava Sadya, traditional cooking, Kerala,”God’s Own Land” – Kerala, പാരമ്പര്യ പാചകം
Malayali Sadya – Kerala Traditional Feast
Malayali Sadya,Kerala,Traditional,Feast,
മലയാളി സദ്യ,മലയാളി,സദ്യ,ഡി.സി.,
അജിത്,നമ്പൂതിരി,നമ്പൂതിരി,
പത്മിനി അന്തർജ്ജനം,പാചകം,അന്തർജ്ജനം,
Ajith Namboothiri,Namboothiri,nambudiri,nambuthiri,namboodiri,Padmini Antharjanam,Antharjanam,Aattupuram,puthukkai number,kattipoyil,Nileshwaram,Payyannur,Kannur,Kasaragod,vidwan,APG,A.P.G,ona Sadya,vishu Sadya,utsava Sadya, traditional cooking, Kerala,”God’s Own Land” – Kerala, പാരമ്പര്യ പാചകം
Kunnathur Paadi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunnathoor_Padi
Abode of Shri Kizhakkkan ,on top of Udumbumala in the Sahyadri mountains.
It is believed that
Sree Muthappan said,
“Fallen leaves, a spring, a large mountain, a round stone, forest and palm trees are enough for me.”
Celebrations India -Karwa Chauth
Celebrations India -Karwa Chauth
Ash Gourd – HEALTH REJUVENATOR in plenty around us
HEALTH REJUVENATOR: The fruits are green in colour, oval in shape and weigh 750 -1000gms.
ASH GOURD
° Common vegetable used in Indian kitchens for cooking and making sweets .
°Certain ayurvedic and siddha medicines have Ash Gourd as an invariable ingredient .
Ash gourd
Hindi – Petha
Kannada, -Budagumbala
Malayalam- Kumbalanga
Tamil – Poosini kai
Telugu – Boodida gummadi
Preparing medicine
Traditional vaidyasalas in Kerala use a specific ash gourd variety called Vaidya kumbalam or Nei kumbalam for preparing
ayurvedic medicine called Kushmanda rasayana.
It is also used as a tonic and
health rejuvenator for treating diabetes, fever and also as a laxative.
For more than a decade scientists at the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems (CIKS) in Chennai have been conserving and promoting the propagation of several traditional vegetable varieties such as Vaidya
kumbalam.
Traditional vegetable varieties.
Mr. A.V. Balasubramanian, Director of CIKS,
The seeds of Vaidya kumbalam variety are considered to be rare.
Cultivating season
The fruits of the variety are green in colour and oval in shape and weigh 750-1000gm.It is found to grow well in red, clayey and loamy soils and comes to harvest in about
80-100 days of sowing.It can be cultivated all through the year.
Before sowing, the seeds should be soaked in water for 4-6 hours and then in 5 per cent cow’s urine for about half an hour. About
three to five seeds should be sown in circular pits of 2.5-3 cm depth and irrigated.
About one kg of farmyard manure, 500 gm of vermicompost and 100gm of neem cake should be applied as basal manure in each
pit before sowing. The seeds germinate in a week’s time. Only
one or two seedlings should be allowed to grow in each pit.
After 60 days, about 500gm of vermicompost and 100gm of groundnut cake should be
applied as side dressing. Irrigation must be done on the 3rd and 5th day of sowing and should be continued at weekly intervals or once in 10 days.
The first weeding should be done 25 days after sowing, and the second on the 40th day.
The plant comes to flowering in about 50 days. The flowers are yellow in colour.
During the initial stages of plant growth only male flowers are produced and there will not
be any fruit setting. Increasing fruit setting .
About three per cent of panchagavya solution should be sprayed over the plants during this time to increase the number of female flowers and induce fruit setting.The crop is susceptible to pumpkin beetle infestation, thrips infestation,
leaf-eating caterpillars and leaf spot disease. Spraying 10 per cent cow dung slurry on the 15th and 18th day after sowing is found to be effective in the control of pumpkin beetle
infestation.
About 10 per cent neem seed kernal extract (NSKE) sprayed on the 40th day is found to control the spread of thrips infestation. To control the damage caused by leaf-eating
caterpillars spraying about 10 per cent Siriyanangai ( Andrographis panniculata ) leaf extract is found to be effective. Leaf spot disease can be managed by spraying 10 per
cent cow’s urine solution.
Harvesting schedule .
The fruits can be harvested from the 80th day after sowing and successive harvests can be done at intervals of five days. About 4
tonnes of fruits can be harvested from a hectare.
For more information readers can contact Mr. A. V. Balasubramanian, Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, No.30, Gandhi Mandapam road, Kotturpuram, Chennai,
Tamil Nadu 600 085, Phone: 044-2447 1087 and 2447 5862, email: info@ciks.org and
ciks@vsnl.com
Bright Expectactions
She has Expectations …. Let us not belie it…
Nazhika to Hour Convertor
Nazhika to Hour Convertor
Traditional astrologers measure time in terms of Nazhika and Vinazhika with reference to sunrise
or sunset.
In North India Nazhika is called Ghati and Vinazhika is Vighati.
N2 H Convertor
For example an astrologer may write in the horoscope that “X was born 15 nazhika and 25
vinazhika after sunrise”.
A day is divided into 60nazhika during which time the earth rotates by 360 degrees. This means that a nazhika is the time taken by earth to rotate by 6 degrees.
As one nazhika is divided into 60 vinazhika, a day as 3600 vinazhikas.
Conversion of time from nazhika system to standard time is straight forward since one nazhika equal 24 minutes and one vinazhika 24
seconds.
However, certain complications arise since the reference may be made to before or after Sunrise and since the time may move over
to the next day or go back to the previous dayas per standard time conventions.
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