Save Srirangam Madhurakavi Alwar Nandhavanam

September 11, 2009

Dear Kasturi,

Please check with Chi Vamsidhar & get his Legal Advice about this - if necessary, I will file a writ petition to stop this,

Regards

Daasan RR

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:34 AM, srinivassan sounderrajan <rajansssihl wrote:

Dear all kindly read the mail and respond to it as early as possible this mail is to save our sanathana achara and vicharam and thus Save Srirangam Madhurakavi Alwar Nandhavanam

http://www.petition online.com/ mod_perl/ signed.cgi? SSMN & 1Save the Flower- garden of Swamy Ranganatha of Srirangam.

Madhurakavi Nandavanam of Srirangam takes care of the flower-needs of the Srirangam Ranganathar temple. The garlands which adorn Lord Namperumal are prepared by the devout ekankis (celibate bachelor Sri Vaishnavas , who have sacrificed their lives for the sake of performing kainkarya for Lord Namperumal)without any monetary gain for themselves .The Nandavanam was donated by Madhurakavi Alwar in 1840 for the above kainkaryam. Now this Nandavanam is about to be taken over by the Tamilnadu Govt. citing some legal formalities in the Will of Sri Madhurakavi swamy.

Request from the Forum for protection of Divya desam:-http://docs. google.com/ gview?a=v & pid=gmail & attid=0.1 & thid=12328a83f05 84042 & mt= ap\

plication%2Fpdf & pli=1Note from Mr GP Srinivasan:- " I am writing this to you from Srirangam, TN, a Foremost Vaishnavite Temple town, where the HR & CE has threatened to take over a 150 year old flower garden, dedicated to the lord's daily archanas. I am a correspondent of Hindu Voice, Mumbai. Flowers are brought from this garden for the past 150 years. Madurakavi Nandhavanam (under a private trust harvested under stringent scriptural injunctions, where the gardeners refrain from taking even tea or coffee .In modern language total quality control or TQM). One knows what will

happen to the aacharas of the flower garden, which has to be maintained in strict quality norms, if it falls under a Govt department? It faces gloomy future in view of the hostile threat by the TN HR and CE backed by the CM. A petition online has been started by Devotees. They have requested all devotees to " Kindly read it and sign it We urge all the readers to protest this unscrupulous takeover bid and sign the On-line Petition given here:-

http://www.petition online.com/ SSMN/petition. html-- VEdhAntha lakshmana muneendra krupAtthabOdham

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