Sri Ranganatha is coming to US

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Dear members,

Sri Ranganatha is coming to Pomona, US. I read this news in THE HINDU

online. Many of you may already have known this.

 

adiyEn,

chandrasekaran.

>Ranganatha idol being transported to U.S.

>04-12-1998 :: Pg: 05 :: Col: d

>By Our Staff Reporter

>TIRUCHI, Dec. 3.

>A 12-tonne black granite idol of Lord Ranganatha, a replica of the Lord in the

>reclining posture at the Srirangam Ranganathaswamy Temple, sculpted at

>Srirangam for a shrine in the U.S. was being transported on Wednesday to

>Chennai for transhipment.

>The idol is to be installed at a shrine of Lord Ranganathaswamy at Pomana

>near Newark in the U.S., being constructed by the Sri Ranganatha Seva

>Samithi in an area of 8,000 sq.ft. The project was started with the blessings

of

>Srimad Azhagiya Singar Jeeyar Swamigal of the Ahobila Mutt.

>The idol is made of black granite acquired specially from Pannaikarapanpatti

>near Namakkal. It is 9.5 ft long and 3.6 ft broad and was carved out of a

single

>stone except for the hood of Adiseshan.

>The entire plan of the temple was drawn up by Mr. M. S. Sivaprakasam

>Sthapathy, who had designed the rajagopuram of the Srirangam temple. Mr.

>Sivaprakasam, was also entrusted with the work of sculpting the idols for the

>temple. Along with the idol of Lord Ranganatha (`Sayana Thirumeni'), a set of

>12 other deities was also been sculpted.

>They include Kothandarama, along with Sita and Lakshmana, Ranganayaki

>Thayar, Venugopala, Garuda Azhvar, Mahadesikar, Sri Jeeyar, Anjaneyar,

>Ramanuja, Lakshmi Narasimhar and Andal.

>On Wednesday, the idols were loaded on trucks after the performance of

>``yatra dhanam and Prana Prathistai'' by Mr. Sundar Battar and Mr. Seshadri

>Swamigal.