Nadukal worship to the ancestors Bommaiya Sami Temple Tirupur
There is a Bommaiya Sami temple in Barapalayam Kethitottam area of Tirupur district. This is a 2000 year old temple. This temple is worshiped as the deity of Kambalathunayak, Kondulu clan. On the right side of Bommaiya Sami are the deities of Perukulappa and on the left side of Errabappu.
This temple is the clan deity temple of 72 villagers including 36 villages around Tirupur and 36 villages in the surrounding areas of Sathyamangalam and Kopichettippalai Yam in Erudum district. 72 villages usually have 9 big Thanakars. There are Pethanayaks, Parapethanayaks, Ur Nayaks, Pattakars, Pattayakars, Kodangis and Priests.
If a member of the family dies, a stone with his name is planted around the temple in his memory
Even today, the people of this region follow the practice of planting a stone with their name around the temple in their memory if a member of the family dies. If a member of the family dies, on the 3rd day the ashes of the body are brought and a stone with the name, appearance and disappearance of the deceased is planted there and worshiped as a deity. These people believe that the ancestors stand as gods and protect them.
Although the deity is the same, the clan may be different for each one. So here is the method of worshiping the middle stone around the temple, clan by clan. People who have this temple deity as their family deity. No matter where they live, on the first day of Pongal Thirunal, it is customary to come to Bommaiya Sami Temple to worship.
Bommaiya Sami temple has a special feature. This temple is a pallipadai temple. Palipadai are temples where dead warriors, chieftains and kings are buried and erected over them. Pallipadai Temples B.C. It has a civilization of 2 thousand years ago. These people have a custom of making grave stones for the dead. At the place of burial, they set up stone tombs, tombstones and stone houses.
On three sides, large slab-like stones have been placed, and only the eastern side has been left open as a door. 3 temples are situated as pallipadai temple. It is in this that they are worshiping with their clan deity Bommaiya Sami. There are also signs of many stone temples in this area. Kudkukal also stands near the temple. 5 Saturdays of Purattasi moth are also special days here. People from 72 villages also come here on Saturdays to worship. It is better that the pallipadai temple structure is still being worshiped with the old structure without making any changes.
People listen only to kodangi Saying
People who worship Bommaiya Sami do not read horoscopes. Instead they listen to the kodangi intuition and follow it. 2 Kodangis are the ones who say the stones prediction. In front of the Bommaiya Sami Temple on Saturday, the Periyathanakkars will sit in a row, opposite to them 2 Kodangis will sit.
9 small pebbles are placed on the ground by a Kodangi to mark the Navagrahas. Those who wish to ask for a sign should go to those Kodangis and imagine a stone in their mind. Godangi keeps moving 9 stones continuously. Then when the stones stop moving, the mark seeker predicts the stone’s location and makes a mark to tell prediction based on where the stone was placed.
From past events in their lives such as ancestral curses, lack of worship, family and relatives fighting, cursing, auspiciousness, to asking for permission for future events, they get clarity by listening to the stones prediction.