Kallola

The mesmerising legend of the birth of  our sacred river, Cauvery, who we, Kodavas (martial race of agrarian highlanders in South India), worship as our mother, Cauveramme ,  has been told many times. But the sudden bubbling of water, the much awaited Cauvery Shankaramana and  t heerthodbhava , that miraculous event which occurs unfailingly on the 17th or 18th of October, at a specified time, every year, at Talacauvery, the source, is a scientific marvel in itself!      This year, it was at 7:50 PM, on the 17th. Our devotion and belief are unfettered, but today, my curiosity of decades finally got the better of me, and I hunted the internet down. If the legend is fascinating, the underlying hydrogeology, natural siphon physics, and groundwater pressure dynamics are mystifying. Stay with me through this fluid dance of legend and logic, myth and moment :)        A marriage made in heaven, had a destiny to fulfil on the blessed land o...