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Golden Chandeliers
GOKULAM ENGLISH
|April 01,2017
If you ask anyone from Kerala, he/she will tell you that konna flowers are one of the very important components of Vishukani, the set of auspicious objects that are viewed first on Vishu, the Malayalam New Year. In fact the tree is called kani-konna.
The konna or Golden Cassia is also Kerala’s State flower and can be easily identified with yellow coloured flowers that hang like golden chandeliers when in full bloom. The flowering season for this tree begins in the middle of April when Vishu is celebrated and the flower bunches hanging from the almost leafless tree look like a shower of gold coins signifying prosperity (another name for this tree is the golden shower). It is also the national tree and national flower of Thailand.
Scroll back in time a couple of thousand years ago to the Sangam Age and the landscapes described in the poetry of the Tamil Sangam literature. While Neithal was identified with coastal regions and Paalai with deserts, Mullai was the land of the forests and pastures where the crop Konrai (as referred by the Tamils) is found in abundance.
The flowers are also beloved to Lord Shiva. You may have heard of the Thevaram Hymn – Ponnarmeniyane puli tholai araikkachaiththu minnaar chenjchadaimel milirkonrai aninthavane – meaning “O gold-complexioned one, garbed in tiger skin, wearing shiny Konrai on your russet tresses…” There are at least 15 Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu whose stala-vriksham is the konrai tree!
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