The majestic pond KASTURA`s east bank with the fallen goldmohur...in my memoir Annyatha Mullyaheena

Annyatha Mulyaheena.......The goldmohur tree at the center of east bank uprooted on 07.07.2014, imagine how scenic it must be when the full blown red flowered canopy reflected on water, that must have added a lot of aesthetic sense in all of us......Late Sri Natabara Tiadi of near by village Golapanka planted the tree 50 years back when he was a class v student, as told by Sri Akshaya Sahoo and Sri Nrusingha Nrusingh Charana Moharana , both my teachers and are students of same school. Majestic pond Kastura, its East bank, the fallen old goldmohur tree at the center are seen,the school in my villge was established in 1886, and the Matha now a temple of Lord Jagannth on the land of lte Sri Ghana Acarya whose son Adwita Achrya becme a Kashi Pandit and became the head of Balaramkot Matha of Puri , a landmark of Annyatha Mullyaheena, I had written on the pond in different context, this pond is the life line of my village and any one of my village can write a big volume on the pond. My grand father told the pond was before his grand father`s time, no one can tell but sure it was much before the school, why otherwise people kept such a big squire shaped area in between village and school? This is not the only big pond in Tulati, on the opposite side ie west of the village another big pond is there obviously after this pond as it is called Nuagadia means new pond, there is Maa Hingula as the presiding deity, on the north under Lord Shiva there is Mahadeva Gadia, and on the southern side under presiding deity Maa Sanjei there is a medium sized pond Sola gadia means the pond of thermocool. There are so many other named ponds and plenty of unnamed ponds. Each family has a personal pond, my family has 3.75 number pf ponds out of which one is being leveled. Logic is when the river Brahmani/Kharasrota is 15 Km south and the river Baitarani is 15 km north how the advanced people with an old school would live without personal and public water bodies. But how to use it to improve our economy? The fishery department should guide on state`s interest. Recently the importance of refilling ground water by doing ponds was govt concern and subsidized loan of fifty thousand per pond was given to encourage people to generate labor days to dig ponds, of course these loan will never be recovered.Should the government not count the number of ponds done in the geographical domain of Annyatha Mulyaheena , my village Tulati and give a prize. Can any one believe this pond was dug by a lady Kasturi the eldest of the seven sisters each of whom did so at different villages. May be true or may be a legend but we the villgers have special respect for the eves for this reason, and girls in our village are cared equally. WE TULATIANS INHERIT AN ENVIABLE LEGACY.

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