Malai palli thoppulaan-thottilamma

Malai palli   thoppulaan-thottilamma

By

P.R.Ramachander

    Malai palli is a small village below a mountain,.It is called Painapalli(The village at the top in telugu ).Though in the rainy season the village is green, in the summer it would dry up   and people suffer a lot. There was a man called Kondaiah in this village.He had a son called Basavaiah.He married his uncle’s daughter seethamma.,Seethamma used to take the family’s cattle to graze in the mountain. Seethamma was not getting any child and so her mother in law   started   troubling her. One day her mother told that they are planning to sell the cows  for meat to the Britishers  from vellore fort..Seethamma cried a lot and along with cattle reached her usual spot and sat crying there. Then suddenly she saw a pretty lady in that   isolated spot..when enquired the lady told that she had come there to go the temple., When Seethamma asked about the whereabouts of the temple that lady told that , they have to climb further and through two stones they have to cross to the other side of the mountain. She said there would be an anthill there .It was called Thoppulan chami(God who never    gave birth from womb) and nearby there would be a stone and that is Thottilamma. Both these gods should be worshipped and a lady ties  a cradle in a nearby  neem tree, and eat some of its leaf. Then nearby in a  hole there would v be water,She should drink little of that water  and within ten months she would get a child. Seethamma did that and told  her villagers about this temple.  The villagers came there and wondered how the water which they could not find in their village  was in plenty on the hill top. With ten months Seethamma had a baby and not only villagers but all the   people of the entire area started worshipping that god and goddess .They built a a temple for the Gods.The entire Adi month is  celebrated in a grand way in that temple. Not only people from near by places but people from Andhra  and Karnataka come to that temple in very large numbers.

     The neem leaf near the temple is called Thulakkai leaf. Thousands of ladies after the worshipping the god and eating Thulukkani leaf . drinking one spoon of water from there for one month , have become proud mothers.They also do Abhishekam to amman with  milk and Punugu.

This temple is located on a top of a mountain   near Nathampalli  near Velloreon the madras-Nangalore road.

It is a open temple.There are doors to close and so it will always be open.