Topic started by Elencheliyan (@ tintagel.labs.agilent.com) on Wed Mar 14 15:30:24 .
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Please write about the significance, facts, events associated with and today's interpretation of Kaaradiyaar Nombu ?

Responses:

• From: Sugrutha (@ 1cust120.tnt3.new-brunswick3.nj.da.uu.net) on: Wed Mar 14 22:22:19
  
  I think this nonbu is performed by women to attaining a 'sadhaa sumangali' status, by keeping the husband alive for eternity - or at least till the sumangali dies. The goddess that is propitiated is Savithri, who rescued her husband, Sathyavaan, from the clutches of Yaman. The story goes like this. Sathyavaan's time is up, so Yama comes to take him away. Savithri pleads with Yaman to give her husband back to her. Yaman does not budge, saying that he has a duty to do, But Savithri is very persistent. Yaman finally relents and tells het that he is very impressed with her pathi-bhakthi, so she can ask for anything of him, other than her husband's life. Savithri asks Yaman to bless her with a 'sadhaa sumangali' status. Yaman unthinkingly says O.K. Savithri tells him that, to keep his word, he now has to return her husband to her. Yaman is forced to let go Satyavaan.
  
  
• From: elencheliyan (@ tintagel.labs.agilent.com) on: Sat Mar 17 15:46:17
  
  Nanri Sugrutha.
  
  
  
• From: Preeti (@ aworklan001223.netvigator.com) on: Thu Mar 14 03:21:40
  
  Just oru correction. Yama doesn't actually grant her 'sada sumangali' status directly, she asks for 100 children of her own..and thenwhen that wish is granted by Yama, she tells him that she cannot have 100 kids without her husband, and thus saves him.
  Nanri,
  Preeti
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ bangdp-34-75.mantraonline.com) on: Thu Mar 14 05:04:41
  
  Hi
  
  First of all, its "kara-adai" nonbu
  
  not karadayaar
  
  
  Karadai nonbu, was initially performed by goddess parvathi, in order to please
  Lord Shiva. She happen to take birth on earth, and was distressed by the her
  seperation with Shiva. Hence she used to cook one adai, (rice adai) and offer
  that adai with butter, and pray to shiva, that she should never part with him.
  It is said she kept this vrath for 45 days or one mandalam.
  
  Hence women do it to pray that they should never be separated from their better
  halves, or loved ones, in any birth, till eternity.
  
  THIS IS NOT A SUMANGALI POOJA.
  
  It is said later Savithri was advised to keep this vrath (nonbu), for the
  fulfillment of her will.
  
  (As for as savithri story goes, I guess, sugrutha's messege, with Preethi's ending
  is the right version of the story)
  
  
  The purpose of this pooja is not to pray that ladies should die as sumangali.
  It is to pray that neither the man nor the woman, who happen to love each other,
  should be saddned by seperation.
  
  
• From: Ramji (@ 205.177.170.135) on: Thu Mar 14 06:36:50
  
  An aunt of mine used to pray that she live to take care of her sick husband till his end. And she did. A true sumangali IMO, though not in the traditional sense.
  
  
• From: sridevi (@ 203-195-199-242.now-india.net.in) on: Wed May 15 00:21:39
  
  i don't know what to say but the whole thing 'bout fasting and praying for the husband's wellbeing looks so dumb considering that the husbands do not exert themselves that way to pray for the wife's wellbeing!
  
  
• From: Arielle Levites (@ dialup-209.246.71.99.dial1.newyork1.level3.net) on: Tue Aug 20 11:19:00
  
  I am a non-Hindu with a question: How would a woman do puja for her husband and his family daily... what are the steps she would take, the prayers she would say etc.
  
  
• From: aarthi (@ pc022019.imse.iastate.edu) on: Thu Feb 13 23:02:21
  
  hi friends,
  I would like to add that , during Savithri Nombu(i prefer to call it like this !!...no kaara adai or kaaradaiyaar)....there is one famous line that women say before tieing the nombu thread around their neck!.." urugaandha vennayum oar adai yum Naan nuuttheen....yen kanavan yenai vittu piriyaamal iruka vaendum".
  
  
• From: Gowri (@ an7.emirates.net.ae) on: Tue Mar 11 08:51:46
  
  Any woman who loves her husband would do it without fail....... I would. Not to bribe and get favours from god, but the event is an opportunity to show my husband that I care for him. Its like a Greeting card which says -"I love you"
  
  
• From: sri (@ fmfwpr02.fm.intel.com) on: Thu Mar 13 09:11:30
  
  Hi,
  can you please tell me how to prepare the adai?
  
  Regards,
  Sri
  
  
• From: G3 (@ pool-141-153-193-131.mad.east.verizon.net) on: Thu Mar 13 13:38:30
  
  This is the sweet Adai. I found this recipe on the internet. There is one salt variety too...
  
  Does anyone know the recipe for that?
  
  Nombu Adai
  
  INGREDIENTS: 1 cup Rice Flour (sieved & roasted till light brown); 1 cup Jaggery (Powdered); 2 cups water; 1 cup cooked Karamani seeds; grated Coconut 1/4 cup; a pinch of Salt; Elachi Powder - 1/2 tsp.
  Method
  Method: Put water in a kadai, add the Jaggery,once the Jaggery has dissolved, strain & remove and sediments, throw away sediments, to the strained Jaggery syrup add the cooked Karamani, elachi powder, salt & grated coconut,place on fir & simmer, add the rice flour & keep stirring so that it does not form lumps, when all the liquid has dried up remove from fire, let it cook. Now take a little Oil & grease the Iddly Trays & keep aside. Take a ball of the mixture flatten it out, make a hole in the centre & place in each Iddly compartment,steam like Iddly's for 10/15 mins - serve hot with Ghee or Butter on it.
  
  
• From: Nithya (@ 12-230-202-77.client.attbi.com) on: Fri Mar 14 12:04:31
  
  Hello all,
  I am new to this forum. I thought I'll share the salt (uppu) adai recipe with you.
  Ingredients:
  Rice flour - 1 cup
  Coconut pieces - 1/4 cup
  Karamani seeds - 1/4 cup
  Salt - to taste
  Water - 2 cups
  Oil, mustard seeds, urad dhal, ginger, green chilies & curry leaves.
  Fry rice flour till light brown.
  Fry karamani and boil in pressure cooker
  Keep Kadai on stove.Put oil and fry mustard seed, urad dhal, ginger, green chilies, curry leaves & add water. After boiling, add coconut pirces, karamani & salt. Now, add the flour and stir till uppuma consistency. After cooked, allow it to cool. Take a ball of the mixture flatten it out and place in idli trays and steam it for about 15-15 min. Server hot with butter.
  
  
• From: Nithya (@ 12-230-202-77.client.attbi.com) on: Fri Mar 14 12:06:33
  
  Correction:
  Steam the adais for about 10-15 min.
  
  Thx
  
  

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