THE HEREDITARY MYTH AND TRUTH [OF DR. MALLIK]

KAHUA- THE BIRTH PLACE OF DR MALLIK K. NATH

DURING PREVEDIC PERIOD THE ABODE OF SAINT – SANAK [MUNI SANAKADIK/AADI NATH/LORD SHANKAR, THE NIHUG BAL [NAKED CHILD] YOGI, WHOSE ANGER CAUSED REBIRTHS OF 'JAY-VIJAY' IN 'RAVANA-KUMVAKARNA'] WAS KNOWN AS MUNI SANAK NIWAS ASTHAN. AS THE AGES AND TIMES PASSED IT WAS RENAMED AS MUNI SANAKA AWAS. AND BY THE END OF DWAPAR AGE IT ACQUIRED NEW NAME - MUNI SANK AWAS. FOREIGN INVADORS NAMED IT AS MUSANA BAD.THIS WAS RENAMED AS KAHUA BY THE VAIRVI-RIVER [BERHA RIVER] SAILORS ORIGINATED FROM KALHUA. PROPER KAHUA IS LOCATED AT THE SEVEN [ADHWARA-GROUPS] RIVERS CONFLUENCE.THESE RIVERS INCLUDE VAIRVI, JIWACH, KOSHI, GANDAKI, BAGMATI [BUDHI KAMALA] AND KARHEI WITH KAMALA LEADING TO THE GREAT INDIAN RIVER- GANGA.

DURING PREHISTORIC/PREVEDIC PERIOD THESE GREAT SAINTS’ ABODE WAS PROTECTED FROM ITS NORTH SIDE BY THE GREAT PRINCE –LORIK. WHOSE THRON WAS IN THE REGION NOW A DAYS KNOWN AS BAHERA. FROM ITS SOUTHERN SIDE IT WAS PROTECTED BY THE GREAT WARIOR PRINCESS – SARANGA. THEY ARE STILL RECALLED BY THE FOLK SONG SUNG AS SARANGA TERI YAD MEIN NAIN HUAE WAICHAIN, MADHUR TUMHARE MILAN BINU DIN KATATA NAHI RAIN. THE PRINCESS’S THRON WAS IN THE REGION NOW A DAYS KNOWN AS BAHERI. FROM THE VAST EASTERN SIDE THE ABODE WAS PROTECTED BY THE DEVOTEES OF LORD SHIVA, LORD VISHNU AND GODESS BHAWANI. THESE AREAS ARE STILL CALLED AS SHIVA NAGAR, BHAWANI PUR AND VISHNU PUR. FROM VERY NARROW AND POTENTIAL WESTERN SIDE THIS ABODE OF THE SAINTS WAS PROTECTED BY DEVINE FAIRIES. THIS AREA IS CALLED AS PARARI [PARHI].

THE MAINPLACE [LORD VISHNU TEMPLE/BHAGWAN ASHAL] OF WORSHIP OF THIS SAINT –SANAK, WAS JAGDISH PUR, WHICH STILL RETAINS ITS NAME. A VERY DEEP LONG RUNNING UNDER GROUND PASSAGE ‘DITCHED ACROSS THE EARTH’ [KORAL-AAHI] AND MAINTAINED BY HIGHLY SKILLED LABOUR – COMMUNITY [THESE DAYS CALLED AS NONIYAN/THE SALT MAKERS] WAS LOCATED NEARBY THIS BHAGWAN ASTHAN, ON ITS EASTERN SIDE. HERE INSIDE THIS UNDER GROUNDPLACE THE GREAT SAINT SANKADIK / AADI NATH USED TO LIVE FOR LONG MEDITATION /SAMADHI. THIS SMALL DITCHED PLACE IS STILL KNOWN AS KORLAAHI.OWNER OF THIS PIECE OF LAND IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS WRITE-UP. KALYANI LADIES/ VIRGIN LADIES DEVOTED TO THE SERVICE OF THIS TEMPLE WERE HOUSED IN A NEARBY AREA, STILL KNOWN AS RUPNAGAR. ANOTHER NEARBY AREA, WHERE ALTAR/HAWAN OFFERINGS TO THE LORD VISHNU/JAGDISH WERE MADE AROUND THE CLOCK, WAS A PLACE WHERE THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT WAS INEFFECTIVE DUE TO THE LIGHT GENERATED BY THE FIRE OF HAWAN. THIS PLACE HAS TURNED INTO A VILLAGE AT THE BANK OF KAMALA RIVER, IS STILL CALLED AS NISHIHARA.

THE LAND SCAPES AHEAD THE ‘NISHIHARA AND VISHNU PUR’ WERE FULL OF GOLD MINES.FOR HAWAN AND THERMAL PROCESSING OF THE GOLD-ORES FIREWOOD FROM BELTREES [STONE APPLE TREES] WERE USED AT NISHIHARA. THE BELTREES’ PLANTATION/FORESTRY AREA WAS SITUATED JUST NEARBY THE HAWANPLACE –NISHIHARA, AND IT WAS CALLED BELBARDA. THIS PLACE STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL NAME –BELBARDA. THE RAW GOLD MATERIALS WERE EXCHANGED IN A VILLAGE MARKET, STILL KNOWN AS SONA-BE-HAT. THESE FINISHED GOLD PRODUCES WERE STORED IN A CASTEL, WHICH RETAINS ITS NAME AS SONA-E-DIH. DR. KAMESHWAR NATH MALLIK, THE AUTHOR OF THIS WRITE-UP, IS OWNER OF THIS RUINED CASTEL’S LAND. FOR REST OF THE MISCELLENEOUS SERVICES/WORKS PEOPLE AND FAMILIES WERE KEPT ENGAGED.THEY WERE CALLED NEURS AND MADE TO RESIDE IN A NEARBY AREA STILL CALLED AS NEURI. THE REMAINS OF THE GOLD ORES’ PROCESSED WERE FURTHER PUT UNDER WASHERY & SEGREGATION CALLED CHILLAUNI. THIS CHILLAUNI WAS DONE UNDER THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMAND [SULTANI/TO GET DONE] OF THE THEN MANAGEMENT.THESE PLACES OF GOLD REFINARY WERE SITUATED NEARBY NEURI, AND STILL RETAIN ITS NAMES ‘SULTANI-CHILLAUNI’. THE WASTES AND DISCARDS FROM THIS GOLD REFINARY WERE STORED AWAY, AND MADE TO COMPLETELY BURN [PURN – DAHA]. THIS PLACE FOR THERMAL DESTRUCTION OF ‘WASTES-DISCARDS’ STILL RETAINS ITS NAME AS PURANDAHA. TO INSPECT PROPER COMPLETION OF THIS THERMAL DESTRUCTION PROCESS CONCERN AUTHORITIES AND ASSISSTANTS USED TO GATHERED/ASSEMBLED AROUND [CHAURI] THE PURANDAHA. THIS PLACE IS STILL CALLED AS KAHUA – CHAURI. SIMILARLY, BODY BUILDERS / WRESTLERS TO BE KEPT DEPLOYED AS PERSONAL/PROPERTY GUARDS, WERE NAMED AS MAL-A-HAUL. THE AREA, WHERE THEY WERE PUT TO RESIDE WAS CALLED MAL-AHUL/MALAUL. THIS PLACE IS SITUATED JUST ON THE OTHER BANK OF KAMALA RIVER, ONE AMONG THE RIVERS FLOWING/PASSING AROUND THE ABODE OF THE SAINTS – MUNI SANKADIK. THE FOOD GRAINS AND EDABLES’ STOCKS PRODUCED AND MAINTAINED FOR NURISHMENT OF THE POPULATION UNDER MUNI SANAKADIK ASRAMA WERE CALLED POKSHA-ANNM [NUTRIENTS], AND WERE PUT UNDER THE CONTROL OF GOD LAXAMINARAIN’S MONK PLACED/ESTABLISHED AT LAO-DHOHO [TO BRING AND TRANSPORT OFF]. THESE PLACES HAVE GONE UNDER A DEFORMED NOMINICLATURES, AND THESE DAYS CALLED AS POKHARAM AND LADAHO.

THOUGH THE SAINTS – MUNI SANAKS HAVE NOT LEFT ANY DESCENDENT, THIS MUSANABAD / KAHUA IS STILL VERY RICH OF SPIRITUAL RITUALS AND GOD FEARING PEOPLE. NUMEROUS FEMALY MEMBERS OF THIS ABODE TAKE THEIR SANYAS-RELIGION IN EARLY AGE, WHETHER THEY BELONG TO HIGHER OR LOWER CAST. MYTH SAYS THAT THIS ABODE OF THE SAINTS-MUNI SANAKS / KAHUA HAS TRADITION TO WITNESS INCARNATION OF A GOD IN EVERY CENTURY, AND INCARNATON OF SOME DEVINE SOULS TWICE IN A CENTURY. THE LAST WELKNOWN SUCH INCARNATED BIRTH-BAUWA BABA [JAGNARAIN] WAS RECOGNISED BY PROF. K.K. JHA [SON OF LATE K.K. JHA] OF THIS VILLAGE WITH THE HELP OF HIS GURUDEV/SPIRITUAL PREACHER-TEACHER. AGED/OLD PEOPLE OF THIS VILLAGE AND OTHER ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE DEVINE SOULS - MANIYAR BABA [ACHAMVIT] AND LAXAMI GOSAIN / RAMCHANDRA MISHRA. LAXAMI GOSAIN WAS A RELATION OF BEKAL JHA OF JAGDISH PUR, AND WAS A WELL PROVEN DIVINE SOUL OF THE EARLY SECOND HALF OF THE LAST CENTURY. LAXAMI GOSAIN’S ICONE HAS BEEN SET-UP IN A TEMPLE OF A VILLAGE OF SAHARSA DISTRICT – BANGAON MAHIDSHI, THE BIRTH PLACE OF THE HISTORIC & LEARNED MANDAN MISHRA OF THE GREAT SAINT SHANKRACHARYA’S TIME.