Our treasure hunt!

It all happened when Shibu had a dream!

He told to "super-five" that he had this dream on three successive days and he woke up hearing 'Kootta Mani' (bell ringing) from temple, which means that it is truth.
In his dream he vividly found the presence of a big pot of gold, jewels and coins in a pit at Tipu kotta (a small hillock towards the back side of our temple which is mostly uninhabited and full of trees- looks like a small jungle). Our earlier expedition to this place revealed 'Enna Kulam', (oil pond) and many small 'Kappanas' (bigger pits in ground from where people take clay for various building purposes) and trunks of sandalwood trees (Sandal wood trees, though illegal to cut, people make money by selling it secretly).

We were made to believe that Tipu Sulthan came to our village on his way to South Kerala before his army had to retrieve owing to bad climate and disease outbreaks (there is a story about Ettumanoor temple that he went back due to the King's prayer which caused torrential rain). On my way to school there were small pits of a foot diameter in the middle of a rocky terrain and we were told that, those pits were created due to cannon fire of Tipu;-D (my favorite past time while going to school was to look at swimming tadpoles in water conserved in those pits till some day they all would be gone as metamorphosed to adult frogs;-). Tipu also wanted to snatch Thazhika kudam (the crown of a temple made of gold) of our village temple but was unable to do it and the proof of that is its slight tilt which happened when he tried to forcefully pull it out using some kind of rope.

So he also had left a portion of his loot in a pot somewhere which we were excited to unearth!

We made all preparations for the trip. Took utensils for digging the pit, some snacks and most importantly, many rubber bands so that we can use it to tie immediately above a snake bite (snakes were very common in those places). We discovered the pit which Shibu confirmed as the same that he saw in his dream and started digging. All of us worked till afternoon and by that time we had dug almost 4-5 foot. We concluded that it might be very deep and will return some day later. Fortunately we didn't encounter any poisonous snakes that day.

Later we figured some inconsistencies in Shibu's description about the whole story and started to lose our interest. We didn't also want to work that hard again and thus our treasure hunt remained a unfruitful endeavor;-(.

PS: Shibu was our friend who used to join us in games, especially for cricket matches.
PPS:So many terms in my local dialect, cannot be translated to English or I don't have enough command in English to do that...