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The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma (Myanmar) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east.
The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 km². A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna, Meghna, Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri – flow into the Bay of Bengal. Among the important ports are Cuddalore, Ennore, Chennai, Karaikal, Pondicherry, Tuticorin, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Krishnapatnam, Paradip, Kolkata, Mongla, Chittagong and Yangon.
Mandarmani is a seaside resort village in the state of West Bengal, India, lies in East Midnapore district and at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal. It is one of the large and fast developing seaside resort village of West Bengal. It is almost 180 km from Kolkata Airport on the Kolkata - Digha route. Red crabs crawling around the 13 km long beach is a special attraction of Mandarmani. It is argued to be the longest driveable beach in India.
Geomorphologically, this area has relatively low waves than nearer tourist beach of Digha. However still this beach is deposition with formation of neo dunes in several areas specially around Dadanpatrabar.
Tharangambadi (formerly Tranquebar) is a panchayat town in Nagapattinam district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, 15 km north of Karaikal, near the mouth of a distributary of the Kaveri River. Tharangambadi is the headquarters of Tharangambadi taluk. Its name means "place of the singing waves". It was a Danish colony from 1620 to 1845, and in Danish it is still known as Trankebar.
GOC WDP3A #15501 departs Thiruvarur with train 56714 06h10 Trichy – Karaikal Passenger on 29th January 2013.
About Temple:
This is a vast and beautiful temple heralded as Ratnasabhai – one of the five Pancha Sabhais special to Nataraja featuring a sprawling well maintained temple complex with beautiful mandapams and gopurams. It is located within two hours drive from Chennai, and within an hours drive from Kanchipuram. This place is called the Rathina Sabai (Gem Court).
The other Sabai’s are as follows:
* Chidambaram ( Sky ) – Kanaga sabai
* Thiruvalangadu ( Gems ) – Rathina sabai
* Thirukkutralam ( Art ) – Chitra sabai
* Thirunelveli ( Copper ) – Tamira sabai
* Madurai ( Silver ) – Rajatha sabai
History
It was the time when both Lord Shiva and Kali had debate on who is the best dancer. To conclude and make a decision a competition was arranged. This was witnessed by all the God’s and Godess including sages.
The dance performance started and each had their turn to demonstrate their talent and non are less competent. During this period, Shiva’s ear ring falls down and in order to avoid any hindrance to the performance he uses his right leg to pick the ear ring wars it his ear.
Kali being women cannot raise her legs that high in front of crowd and thus gets defeated. Hence she is in his temple in her dancing pose.
Karaikal Ammaiyar’s Story:
Punithavathi was name to Karaikal Ammaiyar in given by her parents. She was married to Paramadathan a business man in those days.
One day Paramadathan was given two mangoes by one of his visitors on business purpose. He sent it to his home through his men which was received by his wife Punithavathi.
During this time a Shiva devotee came to her house asking for bhiksha. She being a Shiva devotee herself, arranged for lunch for the devotee. To compensate the absence side dishes she also gives one of the mangoes sent by her husband. The devotee was happy with Punithavathi’s hospitality left with filled stomach and blessings.
Paramadathan came home for lunch and Punithavathi served him lunch with the remaining mango. The taste of the fruit made Paramdathan to ask. But she has already given it to Shiva devotee. Not knowing what to do, she requests Lord Shiva for the mango and lo, there it comes in her hands. She servers this mango to her loving husband who immediately identifies that the mangos taste is far superior than the previous one he had and wanted to know where she got this mango. Though she was hesitant at first but later told him all the happenings.
Paramadathan, on hearing that abandons her as his wife as he felt is not eligible to be her husband. Punithavathi then prayed God to have a skeletal body and praise Lord till her life ends thus becoming Karaikal Ammaiyar.
Karaikal Ammaiyar visited Kailash the abode of Lord Shiva seeking moksha but he was asked to wait at Thiruvalangadu.
Karailal Ammaiyar was given moksha at this place and she also got to see the cosmic dance in Chittra Sabai – Gem Court.
The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma (Myanmar) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east.
The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 km². A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna, Meghna, Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri – flow into the Bay of Bengal. Among the important ports are Cuddalore, Ennore, Chennai, Karaikal, Pondicherry, Tuticorin, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Krishnapatnam, Paradip, Kolkata, Mongla, Chittagong and Yangon.
Mandarmani is a seaside resort village in the state of West Bengal, India, lies in East Midnapore district and at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal. It is one of the large and fast developing seaside resort village of West Bengal. It is almost 180 km from Kolkata Airport on the Kolkata - Digha route. Red crabs crawling around the 13 km long beach is a special attraction of Mandarmani. It is argued to be the longest driveable beach in India.
Geomorphologically, this area has relatively low waves than nearer tourist beach of Digha. However still this beach is deposition with formation of neo dunes in several areas specially around Dadanpatrabar.
Dawn @ Mondarmoni
The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma (Myanmar) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east.
The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 km². A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna, Meghna, Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri – flow into the Bay of Bengal. Among the important ports are Cuddalore, Ennore, Chennai, Karaikal, Pondicherry, Tuticorin, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Krishnapatnam, Paradip, Kolkata, Mongla, Chittagong and Yangon.
Mandarmani is a seaside resort village in the state of West Bengal, India, lies in East Midnapore district and at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal. It is one of the large and fast developing seaside resort village of West Bengal. It is almost 180 km from Kolkata Airport on the Kolkata - Digha route. Red crabs crawling around the 13 km long beach is a special attraction of Mandarmani. It is argued to be the longest driveable beach in India.
Geomorphologically, this area has relatively low waves than nearer tourist beach of Digha. However still this beach is deposition with formation of neo dunes in several areas specially around Dadanpatrabar.
ERODE's (ED) WDG3A 14693 merrily chugs under the morning sun shine towing the 56514 Bangalore City - Karaikal ~ Nagore Fast Passenger, passing through the beautiful Bangalore - Salem single line section. — at Karmelaram Train Stop.
ERODE's (ED) WDG3A 14693 merrily chugs under the morning sun shine towing the 56514 Bangalore City - Karaikal ~ Nagore Fast Passenger, passing through the beautiful Bangalore - Salem single line section. — at Karmelaram Train Stop.
Tharangambadi (தரங்கம்பாடி)(formerly Tranquebar) is, 15 km north of Karaikal, near the mouth of a distributary of the Kaveri River. It was a Danish colony from 1620 to 1845. When Danish people came, the place was under Thanjavur Nayak kingdom. Danish admiral Ove Gjedde felt the place would be a potential trading centre, made a deal with Raghunatha Nayak and built a fort, which is known as Fort Dansborg. This fort was the residence and headquarters of the governor and other officials for about 150 years. It is now a museum hosting a collection of artifacts from the colonial era.
Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeinae
Lymnaea
Lymnaea acuminata
(Lamarck, 1822)
[ About nine forms of Lymnaea acuminata have been recognized:
L. acuminata f. typica Lamarck, 1822
L. acuminata f. patula Troschel, 1837
L. acuminata f. chlamys Benson, 1836
L. acuminata f. rufescens Gray, 1820
L. acuminata f. gracilior Martens, 1881
L. acuminata f. hians Sowerb, 1837; L. acuminata f. malleata Annandale & Rao, 1925
L. acuminata f. brevissima Annandale & Rao, 1925
L. acuminata f. pseudohorae Rao, 1929. ]
Native:
Bangladesh; India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chattisgarh, Dadra-Nagar-Haveli, Daman, Darjiling, Delhi, Diu, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir, Jharkand, Karaikal, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mahé, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan
Photo : Claude and Amandine EVANNO, 2013