JALLIKATTU – an ancient religious & cultural event for Tamil Communities.
Samaj Vikas Samvad,
Chennai,
JALLIKATTU – an ancient religious & cultural event for Tamil Communities.
in ancient Tamil, Literature Jallikattu was also known as “eru thazhuvuthal” meaning (hugging the bulls) in Tamil Nadu during ancient times.
This practice has clearly recorded in the Sangam Literature of Tamils.
Sangam Literature flourished between 400 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. Sangam Poet Cholan Naluruthiranar has sung seven poems describing “eru thazhuvathal” events.
According to this ancient poet:
the villages used to hold These events abutting forestlands.
These forest lands were called “Mullai”.
The main occupation of the people in those areas is cattle rearing.
The folks who lived in the Mullai region and who reared cattle were known as “ Aayar ”.
Their livelihood depended on these cattle and from the produce of the cattle viz., milk, curd, and ghee.
They raised bulls of great valor and strength in their houses.
The event of “eru thazhuvathl” (Jallikattu) would be held after beating the drums in the village and announcing the festival.
JALLIKATTU – an ancient event of eru thazhuvathal.
ancient event JALLIKATTU , In Tamilnadu The marriage aspirant girls parent, would announce that,
the one- who tames their bull alone can win the hands of their daughter in marriage.
After the event of eru thazhuvathal is over the bride to be;
and the groom would sing the praise of Lord Vishnu along with the friends of the bride.
[Source: Mullaikali Poetry by Sangam Poet Cholan Naluruthiranar] ”
JALLIKATTU – an ancient event– It Has Its Origin in #Srimad_Bhagavata.
Eru Thazhuvathal or Jallikattu (hugging the bull) probably had its origin from the life of
Lord Sri Krishna and Srimat Baghavatam and in the earlier works about Lord Sri Krishna have clear mention about this.
likewise, Srimat Bhagavatam also described; how Lord Krishna tamed seven bulls to win the hand of Naknajeeti in marriage.
Naknajeeti was the daughter of Naknajeet, the king of Koshala.
JALLIKATTU- Ancient Tamil #Vaishnavite Scriptures.
Azhwar saints of Tamil Nadu scripted many poems of Lord Sri Krishna taming seven bulls.
Naknajeeti is the princess of Khosala, she is also, popularly known as “Nappinnai” in Tamil and Sri Periazhvar,
people believe that she lived in the middle of the 8th-century C.E.
Lord Sri Krishna’s act of taming seven bulls and marrying #Nappinnai.
Similarly, Sri Tirumangai Azhwar and Sri Nammazhvar who belonged to the 8-9th centuries C.E.
have repeatedly recorded in their sacred songs that Lord Sri Krishna tamed the bulls.
Srivaishanavite temples in Tamil Nadu; sings These and other songs of the Azhwars.
with religious fervor and devotion for more than thirteen centuries.
Jallikattu is a distinct religious ritualistic cultural practice of #Tamil_Communities!
Taming the bull or showing one’s valor by holding on to the bull’s hump for a few seconds-
when the bull runs across a very short stretch of land in the Jallikattu enclosure known as-
Native people celebrate “Wadi” or “Wadivaasal” as part of the harvest and temple festival, these practices are going on for more than a Millennium.
That there are worship and conduct of rituals before and after such events;
and the fact that the events always take place in temple lands show that;
Jallikattu is not only an ancient cultural festival but also
a traditional religious ritual for the Tamil Communities that honor and glorify the domestic milch and drought cattle.
JALLIKATTU- Every ethnic region in Tamil Nadu had its own breed of ethnic cows.
Every ethnic region in Tamil Nadu had its own breed of ethnic cows and bulls and;
Jallikattu is about selecting the best bulls amongst them in the most evolved traditional way,
In order to achieve that, These bulls are then treated with excellent care and affection until the time of their natural death.
The bulls would serve the community to which they belong by sustaining the progeny of the distinct ethnic cattle breed.
While the people of Tamil Nadu, rural and urban, educated and uneducated unaware of the-
importance of Jallikattu and its vitality to save the region’s Indian Native Cattle,
the rest of India may find it difficult to understand the facts behind Jallikattu;
As the Rest of India do not have much knowledge about this ancient and very important evolved culture.
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JALLIKATTU, an ancient religious & cultural event, Tamil Communities,
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