QUES ANSW DIVINE 04-2022-06 Dear friends,
These are information compiledas QA by me in 1998’s-2004’s and stored in my computer. They are posted by very learnt members. BEING COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS. Sincerely, R. Gopalakrishnan, 78, dated 08-04-2022 Q1 Where do we have the World’d Tallest Ganesh Statue A1 The Worlds biggest idol of Lord Ganesha at Kolhapur, Maharashtra it is a feast for the eyes!*The actual height of the statue is 66 feet and itis seated on throne of 24 feet high. Weight of this statue is 800 metrictons. The statue is built with concrete.50 crafts men worked for 18 months to complete this idol. This was built by Chinmaya Mission, marking thecompletion of 50 years of their organization in 2001 Q2 Who started the system of keepingGanesh idols in street and worshipping them? A2 It was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak.In 1893, he worshipped the pictures of Lord Vinayaka in the streets. This practice iscontinuing till today. Q3 What is Ganesha chathurthi? Does itmean the birth day of Lord Ganesha? A3 Ganesha Chaturthi is one of themost important Hindu festival in India. It is the day on which Lord Ganesha, the son of Lord Shivaand Parvati was born. The day thusmarks the auspicious birth of one of the most important Hindu God. This day is also known as VinayakaChaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi in manyparts of the country. It is celebrated on of fourth day of the waxing moonperiod in the month of Bhaadrapada according to the Hindu calendar. Q4 Who started Vinayaka chathurthicelebrations in larger scale as today? What was his purpose in mind? A4 Though the festival is beingcelebrated since times immemorial,the present kind of celebrations of GaneshaChaturthi came in fashion in 1893, Lokmanya Tilak, an Indian freedom fighter and social reformer reshapedthe annual Ganesh festival from aprivate family celebration into a community event. The day was conceived to be the National Festival in order to bridge the gap between the Brahmins and thenon-Brahmins in the society. Tilak chose thisfestival for this purpose because Lord Ganesh was considered to be the ' God of Everyman'.It then served as a meeting groundfor people of all community and religion on a public platform. Q5 Where do we have Ganesha mantra toinvoke life in to Ganesha idol during pooja? A5 To invoke Lord Ganesha throughprayers and bring life in the idol-. The mantra for this can be found in the in the Rig Veda and is part of Ganesh Suktha. Q6 Can you specify a few magnificienttemples of India? A6 The following are a few to list 1 Kedarnathtemple, Kedarnath, Uttarakhand 2 Pashupatinath temple,Kathmandu , Nepal 3 Lord Kalabhairaveshwara Temple , Adichunchanagiri Math (95 Kms from Bangalore ), Karnataka 4 Sri DharmasthalaManjunatheshwara Temple, Dharmasthala (75 kms from Mangalore), Karnataka 5 Kollur Sri MookambikaTemple, Kollur (128 kms from Mangalore) Karnataka.. 6 Trimbakeshwar Temple ,Nasik , Maharashtra 7 SriKrishna Temple, Guruvayur, Kerala 8 Sri Shantadurga temple, Ponda, Goa 9 Sri Siddhivinayak Temple,Mumbai, Maharastra 10 Suchindram Temple, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu.. 11 Madananteshwara Siddivinayaka Temple, Madhur (50 kms from Mangalore), Kerala 12 SriPadmanabhaswamy Temple, Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala The best part of the temple is thethe huge idol of Lord Vishnu sleeping over the snake is turning into gold(it weighs almost 700 kg)! It is believed that when Mahmud of Ghazni invadedIndia in the middle ages, the people ofthe then kingdom invented a black coating which would not wear out even by thestrongest chemicals. They coated the large idol with this so that the plunderers wont come to know thatits made up of gold. they were unableto remove the coating after the invaders left. But recently, in the past 10 yrs or so the coating isfinally wearing out little by little. 13 Sri Virupaksha Temple, Hampi, Karnataka 14 SriVenkateswara Temple, Tirumala, AndhraPradesh 15 Sri Gokarnanatheshwara Temple, Mangalore,Karnataka 16 Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple Corridor,Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu 17 Sri Ranganathaswamy Kovil ( Temple ), Srirangam (Near Trichy), Tamil Nadu 18 Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareswarar ThiruKovil,Madurai , Tamil Nadu 19 Shore Temple,Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu 20 Arulmigu Arunachaleswarar Temple ,Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu 21 Brihadeeshwar temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. TheGopuram of this Temple does not cast any Shadow. Also the Vimaanam(top of thegopuram) of this temple is made of one Single Stone. 22 NatarajaTemple, Chidambaram, TamilNadu 23 SreeSeetha Ramachandra Swamivari Temple, Bhadrachalam, Andhra Pradesh 24 Sri KalahastheshwaraTemple, Kalahasti, Andhra Pradesh The Only Hindu Temple in the worldwhich is openedeven during Lunar and SolarEclipses as the Graha Doshas do not effect this Temple . 25 DakshineswarKali Temple Dakshineswar (near Kolkata), West Bengal 26 Kanchi Kamakshi Amman Temple, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu 27 Arulmigu SarangapaniTemple - Kumbakonam, TamilNadu 28 Tiruchendur Sri Subrahmanya Swami Devasthanam, Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu 29 Kanchi Kamakshi Amman Temple, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu 30 Sri Sharadamba Temple, Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Sringeri (101 kmsfrom Mangalore), Karnataka 31 Sri Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebidu (NearHassan), Karnataka 32 Sri Chennakesava Temple, Belur (NearHassan), Karnataka 33 Sri Varahalakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple,Simhachalam, Andhra Pradesh 34 Lord Jagannath Temple,Puri, Orissa 35 Chamundeswari Temple , Chamundi Hills, Mysore , Karnataka 36 Sri Krishna Mutt/Temple,Udupi (60 kms from Mangalore), Karnataka. 37 Murudeshwara Temple ,Murudeshwar (165 kms from Mangalore), Karnataka. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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