[Advaita-l] Regarding Padmanabhaswamy

[Venkateswaran N E]

The is another beautiful Vishnu lying on Ananta, carved out of a monolith
rock at
Budha Nilakanta near Kathmandu, Nepal.

Here the Vishnu faces the sky and not lying one side as the south Indian
vigrahas.

This is believed to belong to 7th century CE, so earlier than Ramanuja.

Check Wikipedia for more details.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budhanilkantha_Temple


Venkateswaran

On 19-Jun-2017 7:26 PM, "Vidyasankar Sundaresan via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> There is another very important Govindaraja sannidhi, with the reclining
> Vishnu as the mUlavigraha, in Chidambaram, within the same temple complex
> as the famous Nataraja temple.
>
> Vidyasankar
>
> On Jun 19, 2017 2:59 PM, "D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ via Advaita-l" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > I think Govindaraja Swamy of the Tirupati served as a  proxy for
> Ranganatha
> > of Sri Rangam for Ralanujacharya
> > when he sojourned in Tirupati.
> >
> > regards,
> > Sarma.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Kalyan via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > > //Further, I am not certain if there is another temple dedicated to
> > Ananta
> > > sleeping on a serpent Shesha except the Ranganatha temple (3 temples, I
> > > think) and the Trivandrum temple.//
> > >
> > > Dear Sri Adityaji, there is also a Govindaraja swamy temple in
> Tirupathi
> > > where the idol is in a sleeping posture. The original temple was in
> Tamil
> > > Nadu, but it is said that a fanatical king got the original idol thrown
> > > into the sea. The temple at Tirupathi was built later.
> > >
> > >
> > > //From
> > > what I understand, Padmanabhaswamy temple is older than Sri
> > > Rangam temple. //
> > >
> > > Could you please tell me how you reached this conclusion? As far as I
> > > understand, the dates of very old temples cannot be determined with
> > > certainty.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Kalyan
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