Sravan's Visit to Srirangam Temple

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Dear bAgawathAs,

 

Thanks to Sri VS for forwarding the small scribe on visit

to Srirangam temple, written by my son Chi Sravan. adiyEn

also thank Sri Mani for providing a lot of details. adiyEn

wants to add a little as desired by Sri VS.

 

adiyEn think that my son had mentioned that the biggest

"Hindu Temple" in the world is Srirangam temple. So adiyEn

is sure that he didnot consider Buddha temples in comparison

with Srirangam temple as they come under different category

in the Guinness.

 

adiyEn and many Srivaishnavas believes that Srirangam temple

begins its premises from the adayavalainchAn and rAjagopuram

built by Sri HH 44h jeer. It is suggested by seers that any

temple may be considered beginning its premises from the

rAja gopuram. The fact that there are streets and habitants

living in and around the last 3 circuits doesnot make those

circuits as one that are exempted from temple premises.

 

Those puNNiyAthmAs who are blessed to live in those circuits

are themselves considered the dEvas and nitya suris in our

Srivaishnava sampradAyam. We also note that there are

several sannithis for our AchAryAs and perumALs in and

around those circuits where regular worshipping takes place.

When one enters from one circuit into the other from any

side, they have to enter through a small gopuram. ie..

There are gopurams that form the part of these streets as

well. There are temple rituals and protocols that assume

significance that these circuits are part of the temple.

"nagara sOthanai" by sEnai muthaliyAr takes place routinely

and so on. Besides that point, if one may consider the

temple from the kArthigai gopuram itself, such area may be

bigger than Madurai Sri MeenAkshi Amman temple. As far as

adiyEn have seen, the second biggest temple may be the

Chidambaram thillai thiruchchithrak koodam temple.

 

Regarding the Guinnes book, adiyEn read it myself when my

son showed it to me. That book also cites London's Hindu

temple as the biggest hindu temple outside India. Besides

there are listings on what are the biggest places of worship

for each religion and I didnot care to look at all of them

closely enough to comment. It is a concise edition that is

sold in US and probably made for children I believe. adiyEn

will give the particulars of this edition to you later in

the day.

 

adiyEn

thirukkudanthai Sampath Rengarajan

 

BTW, Chi Sravan wanted to write that he saw two garudans and

their nest on top of a tree near chandra pushkarani. Since

it is kind of rare to see GarudA's nest he thinks it is very

significant and important to note.

 

 

 

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