Thursday, June 4, 2009

IN MEMORY LANE #4

As I mentioned in #3, we left for our next destination, 'Namada Chilume'. Though the ride to there from Devarayanadurga was short, it was a splendid one. Dr. BM continued with his Hayabusa style, riding at 80kmph on Kinetic Honda. The place, when we reached, was almost to close. It was around 5 pm in the evening. So we decided to have a short walk around there. It is a forest like place with some small structures in between. There was a small [around 10 x 10 sq inches] well like depression in a rock. The following paragraph and the snap are from wikipedia as I couldnot find the photo of the spot in my collection:
It is believed that Lord Shri Rama, along with Sita & Laxman, stayed here during their Vanavas. Lord Shri Rama searched for water to apply Tilak/Nama [Material is prepared by mixing water with sandalwood] to his forhead. When he couldnot find any water, he shot an arrow aiming at the rock. The arrow penetrated the rock and water came out!!!


The place was fine with plenty of trees around and also a big rock within its limits. The view of that rock against sunlight was awesome. I wanted to add more snaps but I think my blog will just become an album then. Clock was ticking, time was 6 pm. We planned to go to Siddagange mutt before reaching our houses. The distance was a mere around 25 to 35 km. I donot remember exactly. But after a ride of some 15 km, Our Dr. BM's Hayabusa became No-use vehicle. The kick got jammed and luckily atleast the wheels were moving. We didnot know what to do. All got busy scolding Dr. BM for his fault overstressing the vehicle. Then it was Dr. MC & Dr. M who planned how to get the vehicle to the city. Dr. MC sitting behind Dr. M on their Hero Honda Passion, pushed the Kinetic Honda with his leg!!!! And of course, Dr. BM was sitting on Kinetic Honda. I hope you got the picture. I understand its confusing. Somehow they managed to do it for the rest of the journey to leave the 'Paapa' [poor] vehicle to the garage. Even after all this, there was a brillant usual bright evergreen smile on face of Dr. BM :-D

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