PAMPA RIVER

The sacred Pampa River

Pampa River is very beautiful!  This river comes through the forest and those too very important places. You may rember Vijayan. Devotees coming down to Pampa River bank duly tired after a long journey from Erumeli through the difficult & risky forest path, and they will feel better on seeing the Pampa River.  One cannot explain the beauty of the Pampa River in writing.  Here only Lord Ayyappan came to earth in the form of a child Manikandan.  Such an important place is Pampa River Banks.  It is also called Poongavanam (Park) of Lord Ayyappan.

Many have detailed out about Pampa in the Sacred Ramayana.  Sri Rama was wandering in the forests and came to Pampa River banks when He lost his Devi Sita.  Sri Rama rested on the banks of Pampa and took some relief.   Actually, he forgot everything for a while on     seeing the natural calamities of Pampa.  There is a place in Pampa banks called Sri Rama Paadam (leg prints).  Maharaja of Travancore had written one song “Bhaavayaami Raghuraamam”.  He has detailed in the above Kirthana the lines “Anaka Pampaatheera Sanga Thaanjaneya Napomani” and also explained Sabarimala as Baalikeraatha Mala (Vaali Keraatha Mala).  People of Kerala have also praised the Sabarimala in many ways.  There is story of a crow also?  In that the crow has come to Pampa River banks after a long trip, but it has forgotten to drink water on hearing “Rama Naamam”.  Also there is another story about one Frog.  The Frog was on Rama Nama meditation and Sri Rama came near that and placed his leg over that and it was smashing.  Then it cried and Sri Rama suddenly asked it why you have not jumped out when this happened.  For that the Frog replied that if this smashing was done due to somebody else I would have done that and cried out for the help of Sri Rama.  When Sri Rama himself was smashing it what can I call for help?  It also replied that because Sri Rama placed his leg over that it is a good one and it attained the eternal life.   When the Crow & Frog have attained eternal life due to reason that it lived on the banks of Pampa River why a human could not get the same. There is a story that Parasurama while creating Kerala from the sea he brought water from important Rivers and poured on this land and it only have later formed as a River and

(the above is sabarigiri project)

known as Pampa.  Sage Parasuraman and Ayyappan too have advised that Pampa is equivalent to Ganga in clearing out the sins of mankind and that is why the Pampa is also known as Dakshina Ganga.  There is a place in Pampa where Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswathi are joining together and that point is known as Triveni Sangamam.  Many people dip in Prayaaga on the auspicious day of Kumbhamela Day. Just like that many devotees dip in the Triveni Sangamam, which is equivalent to Prayaag.