The tradition
of Gorus thipa (pouring of milk ) in paddy filed.
Decline in
availability of Kancha Gorus(raw milk) in Rural areas due to depletion of cow.
By
SudhirMishra/16October2013
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Balangir;Milk
is one of the most nutritious items we get from the cow, is considered as pious
item, offered to all God /Goddess in
pujas other rituals. It is offered to lord Shiv and other God/Goddes.
Rudrabhishek
with milk is considered as one of the easiest way to please Lord Shiva. But Gorus
thipa( pouring of Raw Milk) in paddy field appears to be little surprising for
many today’s youngsters.
Today’s youngstar think of cultivation by
leveling filed and sowing seed and other process and it is harvested.
However
farmers of this region looks the paddy as gift of mother goddess to human
being .They offer their respect to mother goddess first. The sowing of seed
in the field starts on the day of Akshya Tritiya after due worshipping to mother
earth. Seed and the animals are also worshipped during the entire cultivation season.
When the
paddy is ripened the farmer did not rush to his filed to cut and harvest the
paddy.
Rather, the
day he would harvest the paddy with a sickle , first he would pour “raw
milk/fresh milk collected from a cow in the field as mark of respect and
gratitude to mother Earth for giving the crop.
Thereafter
the head of the family would cut few and then labourer would start in cutting
with sickle. In case, the women member in the farmer’s family undergoing menstruation period, rather than
going to cut the paddy ,some other
person would do that puja and harvesting would start.
When the
paddy ladden inPura( a circular traditional items made of straw to store paddy)in
bullock cart arrives in the house, it is worshipped as Goddes Laxmi has arrived
and then kept inside the house with
utmost care and regards by farmers.
Earlier
there were plenty of cows in the rural areas and people would collect raw gorus
from cow and pour it in their field and
used to harvest. Now a day’s villagers have to move house to house to collect
Kancha gorus(Raw/fresh collected milk from cow ) to pour in the field. This
reflects the less number of cow in the rural
areas too.
Our forefathers had developed the customs of treating land/soil/animal paddy and respected mother earth and they would thank
her for every stageand worship. We should treat mother earth with respect, take
care of our animals (cow/bullock ),preserve our seed(desi paddy and other
crop/pulses/minor millets) to get better crop and to reduce the dependence on company seeds.
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