Thiru maal irum sOlai - part 19 - History of Later day Rulers

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Part 19

 

Thiru maal irum sOlai - part 19 - History of Later day

Rulers

 

In 1757 A.D., Haider Ali robbed the "kalyAna

mandapam" here and demolished the compound walls.

General Yusub Khan defeated Haider Ali and chased

him away to dindigul in 1758 and returned the

properties of this temple to the temple authorities.

He also sought and performed "parihAram" or "papa

vimOchanam" for the act conducted by the previous

looting incident. In 1801 A.D., this temple came

under the jurisdiction of East India Company British

Rulers. District Collector "BuhArs" regularised the

administration of the temple properties and provided

a moral support for the temple.

 

Later Sri Krishna Deva rAyar who started a

"mammoth effort" of building as many as "90 Raja

Gopurams all over south India srivaishnava temples",

had to leave some of them unfinished as his rule

came to an end. Those unfinished gOpurams are called

later as Raya gopuram or mottai goupurams thus named

after him. Thanks to the effort of HIS HOLINESS 44

th jeer, the Raya gopuram of Srirangam that was

left unfinished by Sri Krishna Deva Rayar was

completed successfully. However it was Sri Krishna

Deva Rayar's period that the foundation for these

gopurams were laid out and the very idea to

construct these gopurams were conceived and

initiated. Thanks to Sri Krishna deva Rayar, on

behalf of all Srivaishnavas of this day. Not to

mention that the foundation of Srirangam gopuram was

found to be very strong to withstand the tower of 13

stories and its weight when it was tested by the

modern civil engineers and Govt. authorities who

approved of such construction in 1980's. Coming back

to Sri Krishna deva Rayar it was he who donated the

majority of the lands that the temple currently

owns. He had originally donated the nearby villages

of samaya nalloor and saantha mangalam for this

temple. Our salute to sri krishna Deva raayar in line of

respecting adiyaar's adiyaar !

 

 

 

Sri SridEvith thaayaar Sri ANDAL samEtha Sri

kaLLazhagar paramswami sudara raaja perumaal

thriuvadikaLE saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan