POONTHEN ARUVI.. PONMUTI PUZHAYUTAE
ANIYATTHIE… Dear friends, Yesterday night in Soorya movies I was seeing a film withfew shots in springs. On seeing it the title song came to my recollection. Long back I was attracted to the beautiful lines of the song-Poonthen Aruvi, Ponmutipuzhayutae aniyatthi, namukkorae daham….. Lyric- Vayalar Ramavarma. SingerP Suseela. Film Oru pennintae katha (1971) I thought today my posting can be about aruvi (അരുവി) orstream. Sincerely. Gopala Krishnan 14-5-2021 1. Aruvi (Stream) While we go through the hill section we can see smallchannels of water falling down, then they join together and form a stream. Mostly when we say aruvi it combines that falling andflowing. Kuttalam falls andstream, Tripparappu falls and streams aretwo immediately coming to my recollection in the plane. Kuttalam is in Tamilnaduin the border of Kerala and Tripparappu is near Nagerkovil. On the way to THEKKADI I have seen many such falls and streams and enjoyedthrough sitting in bus. I have been toThekkati 4 times along with trainees visit to holiday spots while in RTTCTrivandrum. In KODAIKKANALthe SILVER CASCADE and BEARSHOLLA FALLS toocomes to my recollection. While coming up most vehicles stop at Silver cascade,persons refresh and then continue the journey on those days (1975’s). Kodaikkanal was my visit to first Hill station where Iworked also for two years as juniorengineer. A continuous flow of stream for a lengthy section can be seen near Spencers. In the KOLLIMALAIHILLS near Namakkal it was awonder for me to see small streams joining together and form a small lake onthe top of the hill about 1 KM west andsomewhat below the Lord Siva temple onthe top of this hill. I am told siddhas would be around the streams. In the valiyapatha to Sabarimala also one can come across few streams. 2. Aruvikkara There is a place by name ARUVIKKARA near Trivandrum, but in that place Icould see something like a dry river. I am not sure anywhere near, there is awater fall. I have gone to the place for an inauspicious matter and could notgo more about it. But on the way to Ponmuti there are streams. Near to MOONARthere are many streams, most tourists keep their vehicles there and enjoybreeze/ take bath. One of the streams is called Seetha Devi spring, it is believed, Sitha Devitook bath in the pond above and stream is overflowing from there. There are a number of streams joining and making a big pond and flowing at Vaithiri in Wayanad. Near Tirunelli temple a number of streams falls, makes small ponds and flows. Mainly Pithru kariyams are offered in the banks of ponds after bath in streams/pond. 3. Nada vaibhavam. I have seen some people’s singing, oratory, talk, writingetc. are compared to the flow of a stream. (Aruvi ozhukunnathu mathiri). It is actually a varaprasadam or deiva kadaksham to havesuch a calibre. It comes to one inthousand. I had a Malayalam lecturer by name Kunju Sankara Pillai andProfessor by name KN Panikkar while studying in college. Their talks were oftencompared to stream flowing. While KN Panikkar taking class one hour would befelt as 10 minutes!!! Similarly the Lyrics of Vayalar Ramavarma. He was a writertoo. His book”PURUSHATHARANGLILUDE” was a study book for me in college in the 1styear. 4. Purity and coolness. Irrespective of the path through which the stream flows,the water is cool and considered as pure. Many people use the stream water fordrinking and cooking. Streams may jointogether and form river or river lets. 5. Thotu Rain water flowing in deep through a place without morecurrent is told as THOTU.This can be water from stream waters also without speed. The final destination could be river or kayal(Lake). There are places in Kerala added with thotu like- SEETHATHODE, KUTTHIYATHOTU etc. There are also places called THANEER MUKKAM, THOTTU MUKKAM, THOTUPUZHA etc. There was a news item at Thottappali spillway sea water entering lake.Now Kerala is facing heavy rain. For the next few days also. 6. Bathing in streams During summer it is most enjoyable to bath in stream water.One may like any amount of time spent on stream water during the time. But thisneed not be the case during winter. In the shivering winter people may justtake bath. During a Sabarimalaiseason I have taken bath at Kuttalam in the chilliest water. Also I tookbath in summer also. For those notknowing, there is a short path to Kuutralam from Papanasam. Papanasam is about 15 KM from Sadavudayar kovil/ Kallidaikurichi. Tamravarni flows like a stream at Papanasam with heavycurrent. 7. About streaminteresting details read from wikipedia A stream is a body of water with a current, confined withina bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, astream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill (occasionallyghyll), kill, lick, mill race, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage,wash, run or runnel. Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle,instruments in groundwater recharge, and corridors for fish and wildlifemigration. Thebiological habitat in the immediate vicinity of a stream is called a riparianzone. Given the status of the ongoing Holocene extinction,streams play an important corridor role in connecting fragmented habitats andthus in conserving biodiversity. The study of streams and waterways in general is known as surface hydrology and isa core element of environmental geography. 8. Creek and stream A stream smaller than a creek, especially one that is fedby a spring or seep. It is usually small and easily forded. A brook ischaracterised by its shallowness and its bed being composed primarily of rocks. In North America, Australia and New Zealand, a small tomedium sized natural stream may sometimes navigable by motor craft and may beintermittent. In parts of New England, the UK and India, a tidal inlet,typically in a salt marsh or mangrove swamp, or between enclosed and drainedformer salt marshes or swamps (e.g. Port Creek separating Portsea Island fromthe mainland). In these cases, the stream is the tidal stream, the courseof the seawater through the creek channel at low and high tide. My note- Dubai creek comes to my recollection. It was crossedby country boats. There is a tunnel inside creek.One time I crossed it during morning walk. Really it was suffocating andpartially dark in the centre. 9. River and tributary River -A large natural stream, whichmay be a waterway. Tributary -A contributory stream, or astream which does not reach the sea but joins another river (a parent river).Sometimes also called a branch or fork 10. Regional names I was curious to know the regional names for the stream Allt is used inHighland Scotland. Beck is used in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Dumfriesshire andCumbria. Bourne is used in the chalk down land of southern England(although strictly a bourne is wet in summer and dry in winter). Brook is used in the Midlands, Lancashireand Cheshire. Burn is used inScotland and North East England. Nant is used in Wales. Stream is used inSouthern England. Syke is used in lowland Scotland and Cumbria. In NorthAmerica-Branch, fork, or prong can refer to tributaries or distributaries that share the samename as the main stream, generally with the addition of a cardinal direction. Branch is also usedto name streams in Maryland and Virginia. Crick is used in some parts of the United States. Falls is also usedto name streams in Maryland. Little Gunpowder Falls and The Jones Falls are actually riversnamed in this manner, unique to Maryland. Kill in southern NewYork, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey comes from a Dutch language word meaning"riverbed" or "water channel", and can also be used for theUK meaning of 'creek'. Run in Ohio,Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania or Virginia can be the name of a stream. Run in Florida, isthe name given to streams coming out of small natural springs. River is used forlarger springs like the Silver River and Rainbow River. Stream and brook are used in Midwestern states,Mid-Atlantic States and New England. So looking at our socalled stream a foreigner may call it as river too!! 11. Some interestingwords related with streams. StreamBar -A shoal thatdevelops in a stream assediment is deposited as the current slows or is impeded by wave action at theconfluence. Bifurcation -A fork intotwo or more streams. Channel -A depressioncreated by constant erosion that carries the stream's flow. Confluence -The point atwhich the two streamsmerge. If the two tributaries are of approximately equal size, the confluencemay be called a fork. Stream corridor -Stream, its floodplains, and thetransitional upland fringe Floodplain -Lands adjacentto the stream that issubject to flooding when a stream overflows its banks. Gauging station -A pointof demarcation along theroute of a stream or river, used for reference marking or water monitoring. Headwaters -The part ofa stream or river proximate to its source. The word is most commonly used in the plural wherethere is no single point source. Knickpoint -The point ona stream's profile where a sudden change in stream gradient occurs. Mouth -The point atwhich the stream discharges, possibly via an estuary or delta, into a static body ofwater such as a lake or ocean. Pool -A segment wherethe water is deeper and slower moving. Riffle -A segment wherethe flow is shallower and more turbulent. Run -A somewhat smoothlyflowing segment of the stream. Source -The spring fromwhich the stream originates, or other point of origin of a stream. Spring -The point atwhich a stream emerges from an underground course through unconsolidated sediments orTHROUGH CAVES. A stream can, especially with caves, flow aboveground for partof its course, and underground for part of its course. Stream bed -The bottomof a stream. Waterfall or cascade-The fall of water where the stream goes over a sudden drop called a nick point; somenick points are formed by erosion when water flows over an especially resistantstratum, followed by one less so. The stream expends kinetic energy in "trying" toeliminate the nick point. Wetted perimeter -Theline on which the stream's surface meets the channel walls. Some of these items wemay be reading or using in day to day matters especially during FLOODS RIVER KAVERI just start as a spring. Appears at Talakkaveri and goes undergroundfor kilometres and reappears. I had been to Talakkaveri about 5 years back. 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