Three years back, we all were excited and talking about the treasure taken out from the Padmanaba Sswami temple of Trivandrum, Kerala. Considering this as the chance, many people put forth their idea of locating the treasure in temples of Tamil nadu also.
Is there any treasure in temples of Tamilnadu? May or may not be present right! However, the mere thought of treasure itself induce our excitation. That too, finding the hidden treasure of our ancestor is really an adventurous one right?
In the olden days, Saiva and Vainava are the two glorious religion spreaded all over Tamilnadu. However, Jainism and Buddhism formed in between and faded away. The rise and fall of one religion mainly depends upon the ruling kings of that period. Even, kings show their power and prestigious pride in building temples. In this sense, we can see the comparatively big temples were built by son to overcome their father’s glory.
Even, kings hide their valuable treasure in the underground room in temple during the war period and the king who won the war, will search for treasure in temples and ravage it. With the joy of having ravaged treasure, the culture of presenting his own treasure to that temple itself is commonly practiced.
As the locations of those treasures were kept secret, it becomes hidden and forgotten as time passes. However, merely hearing the story of treasure which is under the security of bootham* may be interesting leaving the truth behind.
Now a days, we decoded the information regarding the treasure through the palm leaves (suvadi) and the sculptures, unfortunately no one is interested to verify this. The treasure taken out from the “Padmanaba Swami temple ” is also decoded form the books. Similarly, everyone started out with their guesses and evidences of treasure location in Tamilnadu. As a result, rather than the glory of god, interest on hidden treasure becomes predominant among the people..
The famous archaeologist from Tamilnadu, Kudavaayil Balasubramaniyan, sent his guess and idea regarding the treasure location. In particular he quoted Thiruvaaroor Thiyagaraja Swamy temple and Srirangam Aranganaathar temple, with respect to his archaeological evidences,. He also enclosed the evidences in his writings to government and the verification of these evidences is in hand of the government.
Readers may get the doubt regarding the relevancy of this blog and treasure locating things. Right?
Of course there is relevance!
Siththar Agathiyar also quoted the location of treasure in Srirangam Ranganathar temple in his poem and the relevant information is likely to be discussed in the upcoming post.
Will catch you up in the next post. Stay tuned!
*Bootham – goblin, demon, a malignant spirit described as dwarfish with huge pot-belly and very small legs
Original – www.siththarkal.com
Translated by Lalithambika Rajasekaran
