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‘Milk From Sri Lanka’s Neduntheevu Was Used For Morning Abhishekam In Rameswaram Temple’, Says Annamalai In Speech About India’s Civilisational Connect With Lanka
K Annamalai, former IPS officer and state president BJP Tamil Nadu
In a speech made in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tamil Nadu state president K Annamalai said that culture and epics, especially the Ramayana are the bridge between India and Sri Lanka.
Jaffna is the headquarters of the Tamil-majority Northern Province.
Elaborating on the connection through Ramayana, Annamalai said that, Palaly, the place where Jaffna’s international airport is located, was named so because it was here that ‘Palalayam’ was done for Lord Rama.
Further, he said that he had only recently learnt that years back, the first abhishekam of the morning at the Rameswaram temple was done using cow’s milk from Neduntheevu in Sri Lanka.
Neduntheevu is an island in the Jaffna peninsula and today it is known as Delft Island. This name was given by Dutch colonisers.
He said that it is believed that the milk of cows from Neduntheevu has medicinal value because they feed on certain medicinal herbs that grow there. These herbs are growing there since a part of the Sanjeevani mountain fell in the area, while being brought by Lord Hanuman.
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