daSa-avatAra sannidhi-s.

[Guest guest]

In my posting, I forgot to mention the location of the daSa-avatAra shrine of

the Gupta kings. The opening paragraph should read ~

 

"The most ancient and most beautiful of the daSa-avatAra (ten incarnations)

sannidhi-s is the one built at Deogarh included in to-day's district Lalitpur

(off Jhansi), Uttar Pradesh, by the kings of the Gupta dynasty (circa 6th

cent.AD) who styled themselves 'parama-bhAgavata'. This manner of royalty

dedicating itself to vaishNava worship had later-day echoes in Travancore

royalty (starting with Maharaja svAti-t-tiru-nAL) bearing the name

'ananta-padmanAbha-dAsa', and the (Rajasthan) Kota rulers styling themselves

'ranGa-dAsa'."

 

I am grateful to my elder brother Sri Tirumanjanam Kannan for pointing out the

omission. Both my brothers, Sri Kannan and Sri Satakopan, had visited the

Deogarh temple, and also the colossal SrivarAha in the caves of VidishA, north

of Bhopal.

 

I may add that they had also visited the Hariraj temple in district Chamba,

Himachal Pradesh, and worshipped the surpassingly beautiful Lord there. The

Lord is an integrated manifestation of four aspects in as many visages,

Vaikuntha (Narayana), Varaha, Narasimha and Kapila. This iconography, known as

vaikuNTha-chatur-mUrti, is in accordance with the (pAncha-rAtra)

jayAkhya-samhitA (6:73), and was developed in the time of the Guptas.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan,

T.S. Sundara Rajan,

at Srirangam.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Like the parasurama temple in thiruvanathapuram wich is very ancient in

architecture and beacutiful the matsya temple is there near thirupati which also

beautiful here is a copy which i have taken from TTD devasthams site and pasted.

Namo venketesaya.

 

Sri Veda Narayanaswami Temple is located in Nagalapuram, 70 km south-east of

Tirupati.

 

It is believed that Lord Sri Maha Vishnu, in the form of Matsya, killed the

rakshasa (demon) Somakudu here, and retrieved the Vedas from the latter.

 

The sanctum sanctorium houses an image of the Matsya form of Vishnu, with

Sridevi and Bhudevi on either side. A peculiar feature of the idol is that it

holds the Sudarsana Chakra in prayoga (ready for release).

 

The temple was constructed by Sri Krishnadeva Raya, the Vijayanagara emperor,

and is a fine specimen of the Vijayanagara style of architecture.

 

 

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