Sthala Puranams

[Guest guest]

Sri Mukund Srinivasan expressed his

interest in collecting Sthala Puranams.

I welcome this idea.

His collection of information will be timely

to add to the Sthala Puranam Data Base

that is building slowly for the 108 DD CD ROM

Project. Sri Dileepan has advised me that

this is a weak area and we need additional

inputs to add to the excellent ones that Sri S.Rengarajan

has provided sofar on (1) Srirangam (2) Oppilappan Koil

(3)Nacchiyaar Koil and (4) Sholingar . We have 104 more to go!

 

Few years ago, I wrote a number of articles to my family on this

subject . The ones that I can retreive and adapt as Sthala Puranam

as well as Summary of Mangalaasasanam by Azhwaars are:

1. Therazhundhur 2. Thirupullani 3. ThiruallikeNi

4.Thirukkudanthai (5) ThirukkaNNamangai (6) Sri Vidya Rajagopalan

of Raja Mannargudi referred to By Sri M.Srinivasan (7) Thiruvenkatam

(8) Srivilliputtur (9 ) Thiru IndaLoor (10) others that i covered in

my 108 Divya Desa Mahimai Manuscript. That manuscript is

stuck in Madras with my sister and anyone going to Madras

can help to get it back here. It has 400 plus pages and it may be

better to transport it personally. .

 

Recently, Sri Govindarajan of Canada has sent me his Acharya"s

rendering of the Sthala Puranam of ThiruveLLarai in Tamil .It is

excellenetly written and I will translate the essence of it into English for the

 

CD ROM Project. Perhaps Sri Anbil Ramaswamy can write one on the

Anbil temple. Others can write on their own Sthalams such as Sri Badri on

Thirunagai .

It will be wonderful to accelerate the process to give support to

Sri Dileepan"s enormous effort sofar. If we have acces to

source litrature, It willsave us additional effort.

I would also like to suggest that we resolve to push this

project forward with all of our collective effort and ask for

Divya Dampathi"s blessings to conclude it this Year . If it gets

too demanding to get the work completed on all the 108

Divya Desams, we should reserve the option to concentrate on

the 40 temples of Chola Desam as the First CD and maximize our

efforts on that aspect.

I would welcome suggestions on these ideas and volunteering to

move this project forward.

Sadagopan

 

P.S; I have the long playing record of

Sri Seshagopalan"s rendering of the Saveri

piece of Sri Mutthuswami Dikshitar. It has all

the sthala Puranam inside that krithi .