Why Water in Paatala Ganga in Srisailam is Green

Why Water in Paatala Ganga located in Srisailam is Green

Once upon a time king named Chandragupta fought many battles for years and returns back to his kingdom with the joy of victory. Among beautiful ladies in his palace, he sees princess Chandravati and falls in love with her. In the later part, he gets to know that she is his daughter, still, he wants her. Seeing his father behavior Chandravati goes to the forest area of Srisailam and starts praying Lord Shiva.

Chandragupta goes even there and tries to molest his daughter. Lord Shiva appears and curses him to become “paccalabanda” (greenstone) and lie in paatala Ganga. Upon pleading, he says he will be free from his curse in Kaliyuga when Lord Vishnu comes down to earth and does bathing in this paatala Ganga.

Why don't we find lady purohit in temples?

While installing god/ goddess idol in a temple we perform certain rituals and install them by chanting mantras and putting yantras. By doing so idol gets immense power and Hindus believe that by chanting mantras we embed the soul of almighty to reside in the idol.

It is mandatory to perform pujas with routine Deepa and naivedyam with care. Here the person who performs rituals should be clean and tidy; they should also follow Brahmin rules.

When it comes to ladies, they have certain days when they should be away from doing such rituals. If not it is treated as a sin. Even they cannot predict when it occurs. If they are in the temple then the idol should be cleaned by chanting mantras and perform special puja. It is a tidy task. That's why you don't find lady purohit in temples.