He continued to rehash to them that they ought to be exceptionally cautious when they went into the group. He requested that they be aware of the chain and the taali pendant round their necks. He then told his significant other not to keep cash attached to the furthest limit of her sari, yet to keep it in a pocket and get it into her piece of clothing near her midriff. ‘A wide range of cheats will meander around today.’ Then he included a suppressed voice, ‘Cover your chest appropriately. These canines have meandering hands.’ He wouldn’t rest with such ease. On the off potential for success that he had around with the others disapproving of their truck and bullocks, he wouldn’t realize how time passed by.
At long last, he requested that they return to this spot assuming they lost each other in the group. Her mom became upset. ‘Come, how about we go. He’ll continue letting us know something or the other like we are small kids.’ She hauled Ponna along and ventured into the market. It was an expanse of human countenances. Little fixes of haziness lay to a great extent, testing the light from the fire lights. Human bodies were scouring, banging and pushing against each other. To Ponna, they generally seemed to be worms slithering on top of one another. ‘Try not to think this is the main swarmed place!’ her mom shared with her. ‘Today, Tiruchengode is like this all over, on each of the four sides. Indeed, even kids and elderly individuals from the close by towns have come. Investigate.’ But everything that she expressed was simple negligible commotion to Ponna’s ears. They strolled past the market and showed up at a corner that was lit by five lamps held tight huge iron bars.
These were long-lasting lamps. Be that as it may, to deal with the additional group, all the more light was required. Along these lines, there were fire lights or more lamps kept at customary stretches. There were likewise men responsible for these lights, and they were going around ensuring each spot was lit. Right beneath the pack of five lamps were three bloom shops. Ponna’s mom got some jasmine and kanakambaram blossoms hung together and designed Ponna’s head with it. It was just seldom that Ponna wore blossoms. At the point when she went to some capability, she wore only a spot of a bloom. As she would like to think, her dull hair — desolated by the sun and the intensity and every one of the meandering around in the fields — didn’t merit being beautified with blossoms.
In the beginning of their marriage, Kali truly enjoyed it when she wore blossoms. He’d cull wild jasmine from creepers developing over the shrubs in the fields and bring them home. They were little yet unimaginably fragrant. Assuming she wore even ten of those blossoms on her head, individuals four houses away were drawn by the fragrance. The nearby conviction was that that specific blossom’s aroma pulled in snakes. So she asked Kali not to go searching for the creepers. Every so often, he brought prickly plant blossoms. Those also were tracked down on the edges of the fields. The plant was thorny, and the blossom was gentle ochre in variety. It didn’t have a very remarkable scent, yet on the off chance that she brought it near her nose, it resembled sharp drink. It was truly gorgeous to check out, and a small bunch of the roses made a wonderful string.
To abstain from going searching for blossoms, Kali brought some kanakambaram plants and a jasmine creeper and established them along the little channel. In only a couple of days, they burst forward with bloom. Then, at that point, it turned into a significant errand for Ponna to cull them, string them together and to brush her hair just to wear the blossoms. She was enthused from the beginning, however the oddity before long wore off. The individuals who needed blossoms came to cull them from the plants. They bloomed plentifully. She’d remain under the bush and mourn, ‘The plant that we plant develops; the seed that we sow sprouts; is it just me who is the squandered land here?’ Shouldn’t she have given Kali a kid to some extent in gratitude for his adoration for her? A many individuals were washing in the huge hallowed lake. Indeed, even in summer, the lake was the greater part full with water.
All it required was one downpour, and water from everywhere Tiruchengode streamed into the lake. The put was sufficiently bright on every one of the four sides. The specialists were pursuing away the individuals who were hopping into the lake, and requesting that the observers continue to move. There were numerous men and far less ladies washing in the lake. At the point when she took a gander at the lake, Ponna was helped to remember the occurrences including Kali’s granddad, which his grandma had filled them in about. 28 On one such day quite a long while back, Sadayappan, Kali’s granddad, went to see the merriments. However very short in height, he was an exceptionally canny man. It was the day the huge chariot was brought out.