Perhaps Mr Rajaram criticizer failed to note that the Ayodhaya temple was re-
consecrated on January 22 2024 and the answer is written on January 11 by
Srivatsan.
Without looking in to facts, Mr Rajaram simply responds as if he is right.
There are a few who blinds supports Mr Rajaram as if he is always
right.Gopalakrishnan
On Saturday, 28 September, 2024 at 09:14:19 pm IST, Rajaram Krishnamurthy
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for your observation K. Rajaram
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024, 9:11 PM APS Mani <[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting exposure of facts. Thanks, Mani
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 9:03 PM Rajaram Krishnamurthy <[email protected]>
wrote:
Mr Gopala krishnan writes as written in Quora without checking facts and when I
write gets wild. Aug 2024 stat shows average per day as under and where many
temples written by Mr G goes out of board as usual.
THE HIGHEST FOOT FALL Indian temples per day:
1 Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi. Ram Janmbhoomi Mandir, AyodhyaDham.
100000 to 1 50000 PD (as on aug 2024 stat)
2. TirupatiTirumala Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala, India 60-70000 perday
3. SiddhivinayakTemple, Mumbai, India 75000 to 90000 p d
4. Shirdi Sai Baba Temple, Shirdi, India 30000 to 100000 PD
5. GoldenTemple, Amritsar, India 75000 to 90000 PD
6. Somnath Temple,Gujarat, India 30000 to 90000 (aug 2024 stat) PD
7. Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, Kerala, India 30000to 90000 PD in season
8.Jagannath Temple, Puri, India 50000 to 100000 PD
9. Kashi VishwanathTemple, Varanasi, India 1,50,000 average P D
10 Vaishno Devi Temple, Jammu, India 37000 to 44000 P D
11 AKSHARDHAMTEMPLE New delhi 25000to 40000 p D
12 Vaishno Devi Temple (Jammu) Mata Vaishno DeviTemple, Jammu.25000
13 Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Thiruvananthapuram, India789 to 15000 P D
14 Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, India 15000 to25000 P D
15 Ramanatha swamy temple 10000to 20000 P D
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Subject: [iyer123] CULTURAL QA 09-2024-28
To: Iyer <[email protected]>
CULTURAL QA 09-2024-28
TEMPLES –Base Quora QA- Compiled
Q Which 10 Indian temples get the mostvisitors each year?Can you provide
legend about the temples in nutshell?
A Srivathsan, Best place in the world areTEMPLES Jan 4
MADURAIMEENAKSHI TEMPLE
The story of the figure of Meenakshi is alsolegendary. It describes a Pandya
king, Malayadhvaja, who hoped for a son andheir. He carefully performed a fire
ceremony requesting that the gods fulfilthis wish.
Instead, he was granted a daughter, Meenakshi, whowas born with three breasts.
The gods told the king not to worry, but to raiseMeenakshi as a brave warrior,
just as he would a son, and that when she grew upand met her true lover, her
third breast would disappear. Meenakshi provedherself gifted in battle,
conquering armies in all directions. When she soughtto attack the north,
however, she was confronted by the god Shiva, who dwellson Mount Kailasha, deep
in the Himalayas. Upon seeing him, one of her breastsfell off and the prophecy
was realized.
Kumaraguruparar, a great seventeenth-century Tamilpoet and devotee of Shiva,
described this moment:
When you saw Shiva on the battlefield, your thirdcurving breast disappeared.
You bowed to him shyly and were amazed to see thatsuddenly you had only two
breasts.
Your heart was filled only with him. You looked athim sweetly with a
nectar-like side glance, and felt shy.
Another principal god in the Hindu pantheon, Vishnu(in the guise of Meenakshi’s
brother), presided over the wedding of Shiva andMeenakshi, and the divine
couple made their home in Madurai, where they ruled(and continue to
symbolically rule) as queen and king.
SABARI MALA
The Pandya dynasty, expelled by Thirumala Naicker,found refuge in places like
Valliyur, Tenkasi, and Sivagiri, later gaininginfluence in parts of Travancore.
King Rajashekara, foster father of LordAyyappa, belonged to this lineage.
Desperate for an heir, Rajashekara and his queenprayed to Lord Shiva.
Simultaneously, demons caused havoc, leading to battleswhere deities sought
Durga's help.
Mahishi, seeking revenge, obtained a boon allowingonly Vishnu and Shiva's
offspring to defeat her. Vishnu, as Mohini,orchestrated the birth of a child,
Manikandan, raised by Rajashekara.
Manikandan, growing up exceptionally gifted, facedopposition, particularly from
the ambitious Diwan. Amid plots and attempts onhis life, Manikandan sustained
an unhealable injury, cured by Lord Shiva.
The Diwan, aspiring for his own candidate,manipulated the queen into feigning
illness, claiming only tigress' milk couldcure her. Manikandan fetched it,
defeating Mahishi along the way.
Returning, Manikandan revealed his divine nature toRajashekara. Realizing the
truth, the king sought forgiveness. Manikandangranted the boon of a temple,
leading to the establishment of Sabarimala, arevered pilgrimage site for Lord
Ayyappa devotees of all backgrounds.
KEDARNATH TEMPLE
Legend of Pandavas: It is said that thePandavas, the heroes of the Hindu epic,
the Mahabharata, built the Kedarnathtemple as a way to atone for their sins.
According to the legend, Lord Shivatried to evade the Pandavas by taking the
form of a bull, but was finallycornered by the Pandavas at Kedarnath. Lord
Shiva then disappeared into theground, leaving only his hump on the surface.
The temple is believed to bebuilt on the spot where Lord Shiva disappeared into
the ground.
Legend of Nara and Narayana: It is believed that thesages Nara and Narayana
meditated at Kedarnath for many years, and Lord Shivawas so pleased with their
devotion that he granted them a permanent dwellingplace at the temple.
Legend of the Lingam: The lingam, a symbol of LordShiva, at the Kedarnath
temple is said to have been formed naturally by theelements of earth, air,
water, and fire.Also the great ADI SHANKARACHARYA attained moksha here.
VENKATESHWARATEMPLE, TIRUMALA
Srimad-Bhagavatam describes the history of Tirumalathat during Satya yuga,
Hiranyaksha, due to his exploitative activities createda situation where the
earthwas drowned to the bottom of the Garbhodaka ocean. At that time,
thedemigods approached Lord Brahma who prayed to Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu then
appeared from thenose of Brahma in the form of Sri Varahadev. He killed
Hiryanaksha and liftedthe earth, ‘Bhudevi’ with His tusks, and brought her to a
safe position on topof the Garbhodaka ocean.
Bhudevi, the goddess of the earth, being an expansionof Goddess Laxmi was very
much pleased to be reunited with Her Lord, Hereternal consort in the form of
Sri Varahadev. In Vaikuntha ‘BhuVaraha’ resides eternally,so Bhudevi, who is
the goddess of this earth, pleaded Lord Varahadev to remainwith Her on this
earth planet. Sri Varahadev decided to satisfy her desire andcalled for Garuda
to fly to Vaikuntha and bring one of His favourite mountainsdown to the earth,
so that He and Bhudevi could reside here together on thatmountain. That
mountain was brought down, and it is today called ‘Tirumala’. It is the
mountainthat was carried from Vaikuntha by Garuda himself.
There is also a story of Sesa, the divine expansionof the Lord who sometimes
appears as His couch, sometimes as His bed, andsometimes as His slippers, the
same Adisesha incarnated on this earth as theseven hills in which Tirumala is
situated. Therefore the seven hills are calledSeshadari. Knowing thatthe
Supreme Lord would come to live on these hills, Sesha wanted to be there
tosupport His divine pastimes.
As the narration continues, Narada Muni onceapproached great sages who
performed yagna. Narada Muni enquired from them, “Towhom are you offering the
fruits of yagna? Of all the devathas or demigods, whois the greatest?” Some
rishis considered Brahma to be the greatest of the gods,some considered Vishnu,
and some considered Siva to be the greatest. In anintriguing dialogue that
followed among them, to decide who is the greatest,they all concluded that the
greatest of the persons must be one, who iscompletely transcendental to the
modes of material nature. Thus they allunanimously elected Bhruga Muni to test
these guna avatars, to see the greatestof the three.
Bhruga rishi first went to the abode of Brahma.Brahma, the father was very
happy to see his son, Bhruga Muni. But Bhruga Munidid not say anything to
honour his father. In fact he outright ignored him. When Brahmaunderstood that
his son was completely breaching all etiquette and basic humanmanners, he
became very angry. Still, somehow or other he contained his angerand didn’t say
anything. But Bhruga Muni noticed that his father was veryangry, and he left
the place. Lord Brahma had failed the test, being come under the influenceof
anger.
Then Bhruga Muni went to mount Kailash where LordSiva sat with Mother Paravati.
When Siva, Bhruga Muni’s elder brother, saw hisyounger brother, he came up
saying, “Oh, Bhruga , I am so happy to see you.Welcome to Kailash.” He came to
embrace Bhruga Muni but Bhruga Muni stopped himsaying, “Get away from me. Don’t
touch me. You smell terrible. You have ashesfrom dead bodies smeared all over
your body. You wear skulls as garlands. Youassociate with ghosts and
untouchables. If you were to touch me, I would haveto immediately take bath in
the Ganges, just to purify myself from the intensecontamination.
Lord Siva, upon hearing Bhrgu’s insulting wordsbecame very angry. He picked up
his trident and was about to punish Bhrgu whenParavati intervened and said,
“No, my Lord, he is your brother.” Lord Siva thencooled himself down and Bhrgu
Muni left the place. Even Lord Siva had failed the test.
Vishnu began to very gently massage the lotus feet ofBhrgu Muni, who being so
treated began to weep, and tears flowed from his eyesas he spoke “You are the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are completelytranscendental to the modes
of material nature. You are all merciful,allcompassionate even to an offender
like me, please forgive me.” According to SriCaitanya Bhagvat, after begging
forgiveness, Bhrgu Muni seeing the qualities ofLord Vishnu, began to dance in
ecstasy. He danced and wept and cried as hishairs stood on end and he went on
loudly chanting theholy names Hare KrishnaHare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare
Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama HareHare. Bhruga Muni then blissfully
returned to all the sages and narrated hisreport. Everyone from that day on
wards consistently worshiped Lord Vishnu byconstantly hearing His glories and
chanting His Holy Names. Everything wasblissful, but Laxmi devifelt very
depressed and angry. Although Lord Vishnu had tolerated theoffence committed by
Bhruga Muni with a very gracious heart, Laxmi devi being achaste and faithful
wife, could not tolerate the offence that was done to herhusband. She said to
Lord Narayana,“You may forgive this person for that isyour nature.
But I have seenthis Brahmana whimsically kicking You right in the chest. And
because I have seen thisabominable act, I have incurred a very heavy
unforgivable sin and the sin ofwitnessing You accepting this offence is so
great that I cannot live here anylonger. I must go away from here. I must
perform severe penances in order towash away the sin that was incurred by my
seeing this offence to You.
KASHI VISHWANTHTEMPLE
It is believed that Varanasi is the firstjyothirlinga to manifest itself.
According to the legend, it was at this placethat shiva (the Hindu god of
destruction) manifested as an infinite column oflight (Jyotirlinga) in front of
Brahma (the Hindu god of creation) and Vishnu(the Hindu god of preservation)
when they had an argument about theirsupremacy.
In order to discover the origin of the luminouscolumn, Vishnu took the form of
a boar (Varaha) and tracked the column beneaththe ground, while Brahma, who
assumed the shape of a swan, scoured the heavensin an attempt to locate the
apex of the column. However, both of them wereunsuccessful in identifying the
source of the luminous column. Yet, Brahmadeceitfully asserted that he had
discovered the summit of the column, whileVishnu humbly admitted his inability
to find the starting point of the radiantcolumn. Due to Brahma's deceit over
the discovery of the originof the luminous column, Shiva penalised him by
cutting his fifth head andplacing a curse upon him.This curse entailed that
Brahma would no longer receive reverence,whereas Vishnu, being truthful, would
be equally venerated alongside Shiva andhave dedicated temples for eternity.
Hindu scriptures describe Vishweshara as the sacreddeity of Varanasi, holding
the position of king over all the other deities aswell as over all the
inhabitants of the city and the extended circuit of thePanchkosi, an area (the
sacred boundary of Varanasi) spreading over 50 miles.
RANGANATHSWAMYTEMPLE, SRIRANGAM (TIRUCHIRAPALLI)
According to the REGIONAL LEGEND, the deity Rama isregarded to have performed
pooja to Vishnu's idol. He is regarded to havegranted the idol to Vibhishana to
take back with him to Lanka. Rama informed him that he could notset the idol
upon the earth; if he did so, the idol would become boundupon the site. While
travelling towards Lanka, he came upon the banks of theriver Kaveri. He placed
theidol on the banks while an utsavam was in progress. When the utsavam
gotover, the idol refused to move, according to some accounts because Vishnu
grewfond of Srirangam.
When Vibhishana requested the deity to come alongwith him, Vishnu refused, but
promised to bless Vibhishana by always facing thesouth (the direction of Lanka,
home to Vibhishana). It is due this reason the idol of the deity (in areclining
posture) is believed to face the south.
The Cholakings Dharmavarcholan and Killivalavan developed the shrine into the
presentsize of the temple, with the contributions of Thirumangai lawar. They
built thebasic foundations and main buildings.
After the rise of the Vijayanagara empire, theemperor Krishnadevaraya offered
his patronage to the city,treating it on par with Tirupati and bequeathing
plenty of treasures, jewelsand lands to the Srirangam temple. During his period
the Srirangamtemple was restructured, and many plans were executed for its
growth andwelfare of the people.
KANCHI KAMAKSHITEMPLE, KANCHIPURAM
Counted among one of the Shakti Peetha’s, this is theplace where the Navel or
Nabhiof Goddess Sati fell when Lord Vishnu’s Sudarshana Chakra touched
GoddessSati’s body.
The temple is also believed as the center of theearth or eastern hemisphere.
There is a belief that after taking birth for killingAsur Bhandasur, Devi sat
here taking “Kanya Swarup.” The idol is “Swayambhu,”which signifies it has
appeared and not created. She is believed to have threeSwarups in the temple.
These include Sthula, Sukshama, and Shunya.
Goddess Kamakshi created the mud idol of Lord Shivain Kanchi to worship him. To
test her worship, Lord Shiva incarnated himself asKamba River that has high
tides. But the Goddess did not let the mud idol erodeaway in tides. She grasped
it closely with her hands.
She also prayed on a needle tip that is surrounded by5 fires (Panchakagni) to
free her from the livelihood interest. Lord Shivabecame happy with her worship
and married her.
There are various Shiva temples in Kanchi, but “SriKamakshi Amman Temple” is
the only one with the Goddess Sanctorum. Eight ShaktiGoddesses also surround
the temple.
There was astanding image of Kamakshi Devi in Gold. This is a pose in which she
prayed and is calledBangaru Kamakshi. An attack was expected at the temple, so
the image in Goldgets shifted to Thanjavur.
Lord Shiva and Vishnu surround Kamakshi templesituated in the heart of
Kanchipuram. On one side, there are various Shivatemples and few Vishnu temples
and is referred as big or Shiva Kanchi. Theother side of the Kamakshi temple
has big Vishnu temples and some Shiva templestoo. This side is known as small
or Vishnu Kanchi.
PADMANABHASWAMYTEMPLE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
The origin of the Temple of Sree Padmanabhaswamy islost in antiquity. It is not
possible to determine with any exactitude, fromany reliable historical
documents or other sources as to when and by whom theoriginal idol of Sree
Padmanabhaswamy was consecrated.
The Temple has references in Epics and Puranas.Srimad Bhagavatha says that
Balarama visited this Temple, bathed inPadmatheertham and made several
offerings.
Nammalwar, 9th century poet and one among the 12Vaishnavite saints of the Alvar
tradition, has composed ten hymns in praise ofLord Padmanabha.
Some well known scholars, writers and historians,like the late Dr. L.A.Ravi
Varma of Travancore, have expressed the view thatthis Temple was established
onthe first day of Kali Yuga (which is over 5000 years ago). The legendsof the
Temple are handed down through the centuries. One such legend whichfinds a
place in the old palm leaf records of the Temple, as also in the famousgrantha
entitled “Ananthasayana Mahatmya”, mentions that it was consecrated by a
TuluBrahmin hermit named Divakara Muni.
On the 950th year of Kali Yuga a reinstallation ofthe idol was done. In
the960th Kali year King Kotha Marthandan built the Abhisravana Mandapam.
My note- There is a legend associated withVilwamangalam swamikal about the
origin of the temple, known to most in Kerala.
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