Palaga analysis is good. 2 things. One : weighing placing a palaga across the bathroom scale the international check in luggage as well as the hand luggage ,will never work at all; the bathroom scale vary between 11 inch by 11 inch to 12 by 12 inches with needle if analog scale or just view of a digital, in front occupying about 2 to 3 inches. So Plank cannot have >6 to 8 inches leaving the view and length about 12 to 18inches? The international luggage size is 20 to 32L/12 to 20 B and 8 to 14 W. If with 23 to 32 KG weight when you place it across, balance will be off as plank will touch the floor while lifting on the sides. If you place the other way reading will be hidden; if analog when you lift nothing will be seen; if digital, reading will shift to plank weight. So that method will not give any reading at all. After trying several techniques, I came to the end solution of lift and stood with someone to note the reading . My sambandhi has another facility. End of his street has a transport weighing scale and he will send his servant along with the luggages in the car and finalise. I do by lifting and as I cannot bend to see the reading I ask for help. And about 2 to 3 times weight is adjusted. 2 Reg Divine worship TV show may not be the right thing. Only the scriptures. As In Ramayanam, Ravana and Rama worshipped shiva lingam so even in treta yuga divine worship was there. Of Course wrt the temple it is a debatable point on limitations and structure of the temple worship. K Rajaram IRS 22524
On Wed, 22 May 2024 at 01:47, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 < iyer...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > PALAKA (PLANK) > > Dear friends, > > Recently I posted a QA about weighing of Boxes at home with a balance and > difference in weight experienced at airport. I use a bathroom scale, keep a > medium sitting plank upside down over it and luggage is placed on that in a > balanced manner, ensuring reading is visible and found reading is 95% > accurate at airport. The legs of the plank support the luggage and ensure > that luggage is not touching the floor. The weight of plank is reduced from > the total weight. > > When I constructed the new home in Chennai, I asked the carpenter to make > five processed wood planks rectangular in size. These planks have many uses > now. I thought of writing about the planks in general. The contents are > for a time-pass reading. > > Gopalakrishnan 22-5-2024 > > 1. AAvani palaka > > Yesteryears it was common to have 5-7 aavaniplaka in our homes. These > planks were oval with a handle and mostly made of jack wood. Now too > agraharam have aavanippalaka. Uses were many. For all auspicious and semi > auspicious functions, the sasrhrikal will ask for planks. During srardha, > the bhokthas are seated on the planks. During karma, the helping priest as > well as kartha sit on the planks. > > During sumangali prarthanai, the sumangali pithru is represented by a 6 > yards sari kept on a plank. The kanyaka dress also kept on another plank > representing any kanyaka dead in the family and now pithru. Aavanaipalaki > is used for this also. Sumangalies fed sits on any type of plank available > now a day. If avanipalakai is not available, any type of planks is used. > Sumangali prarthanai is an age old custom among Brahmins. There is no Vedic > approval or mentioning of sumangali prathanai in Vedas. > > During all auspicious functions, japams etc., planks are used for sitting > of sasthrikal, and others mainly involved. Normally Brahmin homes will have > planks or commonly available in samooha matams in Kerala. > > 2. Normal planks > > Present days normal rectangular plants used in homes have many more uses. > If kitchen plank is not there a plank is used to cut vegetables. On those > days, it was the practice, my late father would cut and prepare vegetables > helping late mother. There was a separate plank for it. Not having dining > tables on those days, we sat on planks to take tiffin and meals. The planks > were stalked in a suitable place. Now too in agraharam homes, Brahmins sit > on planks and perform sandhya. > > 3. Vishukkani > > For Vishukkani it is specific to use a plank, spread a red cloth and keep > Krishna idol/photo, mirror, and gold chain on mirror, gold coin and > konnappo, which could be seen in the mirror. Other things are arranged in > Uruli. > > 4. Saraswathi pooja > > For Saraswathi pooja, a white cloth is spread on the plank, an idol of > Saraswathi/ photo is kept. Important books are kept. The books are taken > only next day, it was the practice on those days, no reading and writing > for a day, the books are kept. Now though the pooja is done, books kept, > most read or write on necessity even before Vidhyarambaram is completed and > books are taken. > > 5. Pooja room. > > Prayer is done sitting over a plank in the pooja room if takes more time. > Otherwise prayer is done standing before the deity’s idol or photo. > > My note- Yesterday I watched a video in you-tube about Hasthinapuram. A > large Siva lingam was shown said to be worshipped by Yudhisthira. If the > facts told is acceptable divine worship was there during Dwaparayuga. > > 6 Chappathi plank and adappalaka > > In the kitchen mostly preferred is a round plank, plane and smooth on top, > with legs for preparing chappathi. Shops have readymade chappathi plank > with roller. Most have mica sheet pasted on top of the plank. > > For removing starch water from cooked rice in a pot, there was a plank > called adappalaki. It was placed on top of the vessel; vessel slanted and > kept on another slightly large vessel, the plank supported with some > stainless steel glass tumbler. Now in most homes adappalaki is replaced > with chippil. The taste of rice cooked and removed starch water is totally > different from one cooked in either pressure cooker or rice cooker. > > 7. Other interesting uses. > > One is to increase height by standing on a plank to mount photos, wall > clocks etc., if their position is not accessible by standing on the floor. > Most workers desire stools and for further increase of height, a plank over > it. Most of us use one or two planks to raise our height to fetch things > conveniently from a height. > > My note- Watching the Mylo advertisement in TV made me to remember and add > the above point. > > Many for afternoon nap desire a plank spread with a towel over it in place > of pillow and taking nap on the floor of the hall. Mainly cooking staff > desire planks in place of pillows for lying and taking rest. > > 8. Nellipalaka. > > In the open wells in Kerala, on those days a plank made of gooseberry wood > was fitted over the spring oozing more water in the bottom. Nellippalaka > will not get damaged and it was never touched. Nellipalaka is considered as > bottom of the well. > > Nellippalaka is used as idiom in Malayalam. 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