yUgen Series: 2. ‘Kadali’ Stories

The famous Guruvayoor temple in Kerala needs 4000–25000 kadali bananas every day depends on the season- for poojas, as Prasadam to the devotees and for the preparation of ‘panchamrutham’. Kudumbashree- Joint Liability Groups supply Kadali bananas to this temple on a regular basis.
Pooja Kadali/ Musa Sps./ Musaceae- Has great nutritional value and one of the most important medicinal plants in Ayurvedic system of medicine (Arun, R.H., Gazala, H., and Kadibagil, V.R., 2016). Many worship Kadali banana plant on thursdays as it symbolises Lord Vishnu. Kadali banana plant is perennial and represents prosperity.

It was in “kadali-vana’- Lord Hanuman tore away the seven banana leaves on which he had inscribed Ramayana. Valmiki found Hanuman’s Ramayana superior to his own and expressed that ‘ no one would read Valmiki’s Ramayana after reading Hanuman’s”. Hanuman destroyed his creation after this and told the teary eyed Valmiki: “You wrote Ramayana for the world to remember you but I wrote Ramayana so that I remember Lord Ram”! #kadali#UnderstandingSelf#Kudumbasree#guruvayoortemple