Vishnava temples in TN and AP.

[Guest guest]

dear Sri Ravi,

 

You may like to give a thought about funds for

Sri Andal Charitable Trust, Chennai, as per the 'Appeal'

which I have already posted on the bhakti-list?

 

By the way, may I know where you are stationed as of now ?

 

I am myself a 'tiruvaDi-sambandhi' of svami mudali-ANDAn.

 

best wishes from

T.S. Sundara Rajan

at Srirangam.

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Kaliyur Srinivasan Ravi wrote Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:23:24 +0200:

I am Sri Mudaliyandan Swami shishya.

I have seen many thing happening through this network.

I came to know that there are some Vaishnavas temples in Tamil Nadu and

Andhra

Pradesh which is very very poor. Even though some are maintained by

Devestanam. Those temples are not in a position to do daily pooja also.

So I

request our members to provide me the information, names of the

temples and

places where located, Route and contact person and telephone numbers. I

am

planning to donate some amount. If possible I want to visit these

places. Kaliyur Srinivasan Ravi

 

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Sri Andal Charitable Trust, Chennai.

91 Thulasingam Street, Perambur, Chennai-600 011 (India).

 

Phone: 044-551.18.61 (Vidwan Srivilliputtur R. Kannan Swamy).

 

~o0o~

 

Commencing from January 1998, the Andal Trust has been rendering the

following

sacramental services in the in the twin temples of Sri-vaTa-patra-SAyee

and

ANDAL in the sacred city of Srivilliputtur :-

 

1. Daily chanting of Veda and Divya-prabandham scripture on prescribed

occasions.

2. Offering (token) cash 'sambhAvanam' (ceremonial fee) to the

'adhyApaka-s'

for the service of recitation.

3. Providing the materials for the daily 'snapana-tirumanjanam' of

Periyazhvar.

 

4. Organising food offerings (taLikai/naivEdyam prasAdam) in morning,

mid-day

and evening hours, in the shrines of Sri Vatapatra-Sayee, Andal and

Periyazhvar.

5. Distribution of food 'prasadam' (sacrament) to the

'dEsAntari-yAtrika'

(outstation pilgrims) who visit Srivilliputtur.

 

The Andal Trust has received support from Sri Vaana-maa-malai Jeeyar

Svami, Sri

Azhakia-Singar Svami of the Ahobila Matham, Srimat Srirangam Andavan

Svami,

TridanDi Sriman Narayana Ramanuja Jeeyar Svami, and several other

prominent

personalities.

 

It is now common knowledge that our ancient temples revered in the Sri

Vaishnava sampradaayam have been systematically and steadily deprived of

their

properties and sumptuous historic endowments. Their cash revenues,

such as

they are, continue to be frittered away on organising of fancy events

which are

unrelated to the primary identity and history of the temples. The

sacred,

beautiful and time-honoured rites receive but token and meagre

observance as

they are held in contempt by the temple bureaucracy.

 

The Andal Trust was set up and registered as an independent agency to

ensure a

minimum degree of regular worship three times every day

('nitya-trikAla-tiru-ArAdhanam'). The corpus fund was constituted

with

minimum individual donations of Rs.3000/-, and a total sum of Rs.13

lakhs was

raised and invested as capital fund. The interest realised at 15% was

adequate for meeting the expenses of daily worship, but the cash yield

has been

steeply decreasing as interest rates have fallen as low as 7%. This

has

obliged the Trust to seek further enhancement of the corpus fund, in

order that

it can support even the minimum desired level of regular worship in the

highly

venerated shrines of Sri Vatapatra-Sayee, Andal and Periyazhvar in

Srivilliputtur, which is the fountainhead of our sacred hymns,

tiru-p-pallANDu

and tiru-p-pAvai.

 

The Trust accordingly appeals to all 'Astika-s' to contribute urgently

and

generously, as voluntary religious service, and as a rescue operation

for the

noble traditions of our religion. DONATIONS TO THE ANDAL TRUST are

exempted from Income Tax under Section 80(G) of the IT Act. Donations

may

kindly be sent to the above address through Demand Drafts or Cheques

made in

favour of "Sri Andal Charitable Trust, Chennai".

 

R. Kannan Swamy,

Trustee, Sri Andal Charitable Trust, Chennai.

September 2001.