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dear all,
there r quite a few blessed people taking care to
renovate n also do other sevais for old temples
through a registered trust.more n more temples do need
such care (denoted by ardent devotees). 
a co-ordinated effort by the registered trustees on
this matter would be of immense help, so that the
efforts can be fructified.
nithya kainkaryam trust, vilakollithitam, sri
muralidhar guruji's trust, sri krishna permi r a few
such people(to my knowledge) undertaking some service
or the other. 
a collective effort by such trustees can do many
better things for days to come.
regards
jayashree ramanujam.           








--- sathya <sathya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear sirs / Madams,
> 
> I am a regular reader of all the mails that's posted
> in our yahoogroup. I
> have seen that many leaders / administrators like
> you are doing soo many
> good things for all the temples in India and also in
> the overseas. But back
> here in India there is  a necessity for all of us to
> wake up. I wish to
> speak about the very very age old temples
> located near Melkote. There are 3-4 very old temples
> which has its rich
> heritage & history beyond 1000-5000years.
> 
> For those who are new to Melkote, I have attached
> some write-up ( copied
> from the internet) about Melkote temple and the
> temples in the nearby
> Thondanur where Sri Gopalakrishnaswamy temple and
> Sri Nambi Narayana Swamy
> temples are located opposite to each other. There is
> also a temple of Sri
> Yoga Narashima swamy along with Sri Ramanajar swamy
> in Shesha avatar.
> 
> There is only one priest Sri Raghuram Bhat who
> shuttles between Sri
> Gopalakrishnaswamy temple and the Yoga Narashima
> swamy temple which is on
> the nearby hillock. And there is another single
> priest named Sri K S
> Seshadri Archakar.We understand that even for nitya
> Pooja there is severe
> shortage of money. I also understand that the
> Endowment board that is
> supposed to maintain these ancient temples gives
> only Indian ruppees
> eighteen only per month for the daily expenditure
> for these temples where
> great sages like Ramanujacharaya have performed
> poojas. These priests also
> are not paid monthly salary from the Govt. They have
> to depend only on the
> money that devotees put in the arathi plate.
> 
> Now these temples are in a very pathetic condition
> for want for good
> administrators like you who can generate funds to
> bring back the glory these
> temples had long long ago. Even though these temples
> are very huge and big
> from outside, when you go in one will surely feel
> very bad why we Hindus
> donot know how to maintain and protect our dieties
> and temples.
> 
> Like the work you are doing for this temple in
> tamilnadu. i also request
> your kindselves to do something for these temples
> also. Somebody Pl help. Pl
> help Pl help.Especially the significant temples like
> Yoga Narashima temple
> on the hillock where its said that Ramanujar had a
> debate with 1000+strong
> Jain monks and won over them and also converted them
> to vaishnavas. One has
> to visit Melukote and Thondanur to see this and
> experience this in person.
> 
>       Melkote
>       Temples of Karnataka
> 
> 
> 
>       Melkote located  near Mysore in Karnataka
> houses an ancient shrine to
> Vishnu, worshipped as TiruNarayana. This shrine is
> known for its long
> standing association with the spiritual leader
> Ramanujacharya. Melkote is
> also known as Yadavagiri, yatistalam, Vedadri and
> Narayanadri.
> 
>       The presiding deity here (moolavar) is known
> by the name Tiru
> Narayana, while the processional image of Vishnu
> goes by the name Selva
> Pillai or Sampath Kumara. Vishnu's consort is known
> by the name Yadugiri
> Taayaar. The image of Selvappillai is housed in the
> Rangamandapa. There are
> shrines to Yadugiri Taayaar and Kalyani Nachiyaar.
> The temple tank is known
> by the name Kalyani theertham.
> 
>       Legend has it this image of Vishnu was held in
> worship by Bhrahma. It
> is believed that the festival image Sampatkumara was
> worshipped by Rama and
> his son Kusha; hence the name Ramapriya. Legend has
> it that Krishna
> installed this image here at Melkote.
> 
>       Melkote has two distinct temples. The
> Tirunarayana temple at the
> foothills and the hill temple to Yoga Narasimha.
> Legend has it that the Yoga
> Narasimha temple image was installed here by
> Prahlada.
> 
>       King Bittideva of Karnataka who embraced the
> Sri Vaishnava way of life
> and patronized the saint Ramanujacharya, assumed the
> name of Vishnuvardhana
> and built five shrines known as the Panchanarayana
> temples. It is believed
> that at that time the Narayanapura shrine was in
> ruins and that both the
> images of Tirunarayana and Sampathkumara were
> missing and that
> Ramanujacharya discovered the image of Tirunarayana
> in the midst of Tulasi
> shrubs on the Yadavagiri hill and installed it back
> in the temple.
> 
>       Legend has it that during the Muslim raids of
> South India, the
> festival image of Melkote was stolen and taken away
> and that Ramanujacharya
> restored it from the court of the ruler.  It is said
> that it  a muslim
> princess had gotten attached to the image of
> Selvappillai and that being
> unable to part with it, she followed the Acharya to
> Melkote and then merged
> into the shrine there. In honor of this, there is an
> image of Bibi Nachiyar
> here.
> 
>       This temple is known for its Vairamudi Sevai
> in the month of
> March-April, when the image of Selvappillai is
> adorned with a diamond crown
> and taken out in procession. It is traditional
> belief that this crown is not
> to be looked at when it is not worn by the festival
> image; hence each year,
> during the occasion, the officiating priest picks up
> the crown from its
> chest with his eyes blindfolded and then places it
> upon the head of the
> image of Selvappillai. Thousands congregate to
> celebrate this occasion each
> year.
> 
>       Such was the hospitality of the residents of
> Melkote that they were
> reluctant to let Ramanuja leave for Srirangam.
> Hence, Ramanujacharya made an
> image of himself and left it behind. It is to be
> noted that Ramanuja's body
> in its preserved state is maintained at Srirangam
> and that there is another
> image of Ramanuja at Sriperumpudoor near Chennai.
> 
> 
> 
>       A write up to explain about the origination of
> Sri Nambi Narayana
> Swamy temple:
> 
> 
> 
> Bitti Deva was the ruler of this place ( a Jain
> follower)
> 
> Ramanuja traveled eastward and came to Tondanur, the
> second capital of the
> Hoysala Empire. Bitti Deva (Vittala Devaraya) was
> the name of the Hoysala
> ruler. His daughter was suffering from a mental
> illness. Ramanuja by now had
> become famous as the man who cured the illness of
> the Chola princess. When
> the king sent for Ramanuja, he did not go at first.
> But when a
> disciple,Tondanurunambi, assured him that the
> Hoysala king was not a
> fanatical tyrant like the Chola king, Ramanuja
> agreed to go. He cured the
> illness of the princess, to the delight of the king.
> He was drawn to
> Ramanuja's faith and became a Srivaishnava. He then
> onwards came to be known
> as Vishnu- vardhana. In memory of this great event,
> the king built five
> Vaishnava temples Channiganarayana temple at Belur,
> Nambinarayana temple at
> Tondanur, Kirtinarayana temple at Talakad,
> Veeranarayana temple at Gadag and
> 
=== message truncated ===


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