108 Divya Desams

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Few weeks ago, Sri K.Srinivasan breifed us on the plans of the group in Madras

to put togehter a picture album of the Perumals and Pirattis of the Above Divya

Desams. I have been thinking about it

for some time. It occured to me that together we can come up with some thing ,

which will help to

address the goals of this project.

Almost all of us come from one or other Divya Desams and have ongoing

relationships. We might also have pictorial materials or Videos et al related to

the Divya Desams from our travels.

I thought that we can pool all these resources and come up with a CD ROM that

can have scanned pictures , audio inputs on the Pasurams of Azhwars , Video and

Graphics particularly for Divya Desams that can not be visited with our own

body ( Thirupparama Padam or Thiru Naadu). After I read the wonderful

Kshethraadanam by Sri Dileepan , this idea strngthened.

 

Recent Conversations with Sri Mani and the exchange of Notes with Sri Dileepan

convinced me that we can initate such a project. Sri Dileepan has kindly offered

to scan in the images , include the Audio files and Video images. I have

promised to send in my archival material related to the

above Divya Desams to him . I encourage you to send to him , whatever material

that you may wish to contribute. Thus together , we can build up the story

board, and make a CD ROM. I toyed with the idea of aPhoto CD first and I am

persuaded by Sri Dileepan"s offer of help to go beyond that and aim for a true

multimedia CD ROM> I pray to Lord Oppiliappan and Bhoomi Devi for success in

this endeavour.

 

The Pictures of the Emperumans and Thaayaars of the Divya Desam that I am

sending to Sri

Dileepan are:

1. Thiruvinnagar 2.THirupathi Venkatachalapathy

3.Sri Ranganatha and Ranganayaki

4. Sri Rangamannar and

AndaaL of Sri Villiputthur 5. Kudanthai Aaraavamudan

6. Thiruvidavendhai Nitya Kalyaanar with His Ubhaya Naachiyaars and AndaL

7.Thirumohur KaaLamehan and Mohanavalli

8. Thiruvahindrapuram Moolavar and Utsavar

9.Thiruvallikeni Parthasarathy

10.Ahobilam Lakshmi Narasimhan (Lower Ahobilam)

11.Thirukkadanmallai Nilamangai Thaayaar

12.Tanjavoor Neelamega Perumal 13. Kanchi Pavazhavannar

13.Thiruccherai Saaranathan with His Devis 14. ThiruttaNkaa Deepa Prakasan

15. Arimeya Vinnagaram Kudamaadu Kootthan 16. Semponseykoil Peruraalan

17. Kanchi Varadarajan 18. Kanchi Pacchai Vannar

19.ThiruvaN Purudhotthm Purushotthaman

20.Sri Villiputthur Vadapatrasayee 21.Thirukkoilur Trivikraman

22.Thirukkavalampadi Kannan 23. Nagai Sowndara Rajan

24.Thirukkanapuram Sowri Rajan

25.THirupparthanpalli Taamarail KeLvan

26.Seerkazhi TaataLan 27. Nacchiyar koil Srinivasan and Vanjulavalli

28. Thiruvellore Veera Raghavan 29. Thiruppati Govinda Rajan

30. Manimadakkoil Narayanan 31.Tanjai manikkunra perumal

32. Thirupputkuzhi Vijaya Raghavan

33--34 . Rettai Thiruppati Daiva Piraan and Aravinda

Lochanan 35. Sri Vaikuntam KaLLapiraan

36. ThirukkoLur Vitthamaanidhi 37.Ashtabhujam Adikesava Perumal

38. PuLLampoothankudi Valvili Raman&Hemambhujam

39.Varagunamangai Vijayaasanar

40.Thiruppullani Padmasani and Pattabhi Raman

41.Kanchi Ulagalantha Perumal(Pandavar Thoothan)

42. Thirupullani Aadhi Jagannathan 43.Koodal Azhagar of Mathurai

44. Thiumaaliruncholai KaLLazhagar 45. Thirucchitra Kootam Govindarajan

46.Thiruppullani Darbha Sayana Raman 47..Thirukkadanmallai Sthala Sayana

Perumal

48 VeLukkai narasimhan 49.Ahobila Matam Kannan in Dolai Utsavam

50. Thiruvanthapuram Padmanabhan

51.Annan Koil Srinivasan 52. Tiruvallikeni TeLLiya Singham

53. Terazhundoor Aamuriviappan

54. Thiruvehha Yatoktakaari

55.Nandipura Vinnagaram Jagannathan and Thaayaar

 

There may be some more Murthys of Abhimana Stalams and Other Archa Murthys such

as Sudarsana Bhagavan of Sri Rangam, Sri Swami Desikan, Hayagreeevan worshipped

by Swami

et al.

The Index is compiled to help other contributors to compare their Collections.

If there a re dupicates, It should not matter, since, One can pick the best

from the point of scannability.Most of my Pictures are inBlack and White. I do

not know at this time, we ahve to ask the Hindu Religious

endowment Board or Not. Probably not, since most of them are privately

collected pictures from the Utsavams .

 

May the Divine Couple"s blessings be with us in this Project.

Varadachari Sadagopan

Yuva,Tula Krishna Paksha Shashti, Punarvasu Nakshtram.

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