DMK's and AP Target - Hindu Temples

[Husky]

This belongs under christianism. But then, so does the DMK.



http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2011/06/e...5853977856

Sujeev said...

Off Topic: More loot for government?



www.smh.com.au/world/india-and-the-temple-of-jewels-20110704-1gzeq.html



Nothing in the Malayalam media about this? Seems this is the second case I've heard about in less than a year. The first was [color="#0000FF"]the find of silver at the Puri Jagannath temple. There are also regular strident calls to account for jewellery associated with temples by government officials.[/color]

Is there some kind of renewed effort to find and appropriate every last gram of gold associated with Hindu temples in India?



7/04/2011 8:49 AM

This seems to answer that last question (parroting Smith writing about Julian):

what Constantine had done for the Church. Behind the success of his reforms had stood the brute force of money.135 Vast sums were spent on the building of basilicas, and there were grand endowments of land to the Church. That land, moreover, was to be exempt from tax. Clerics were excused the burden of costly public offices, even personally subsidized. There were food allowances for Christian widows and nuns. To pay for it all, Constantine looked to a source of funds accumulated over centuries: the huge treasure house of precious metals lying to hand in the ancestral temples. Pagans, it has been nicely said, had financed their own destruction. 136 Julian's most pressing task in this connection was to do the same in reverse, to restore the temples as the perceived focus of public beneficia at the expense of the Church.137

Win-win for christianism:

- Hindu religion's wealth stolen away from it (Temples often stockpiled for a rainy day; it's given to the Gods of the temple to safeguard for the populace: since Hindus generally don't steal from their Gods).

- Christianism=terrorism pockets Hindu religion's wealth.





From the Sunday Morning Herald link:

India and the temple of jewels

Ben Doherty, Som Patidar

July 5, 2011





NEW DELHI: It's the stuff of Indiana Jones films and pirate X-marks-the-spot folklore: a 500-year-old treasure trove of unimaginable riches - gold necklaces six metres long, satchels filled with diamonds and gold coins from the time of Napoleon.



After initial scepticism, the city of Thiruvanantapuram, capital of the state of Kerala in India's far south, is the focus of national attention after the discovery of an ancient hoard of riches hidden in at least five secret vaults beneath a mediaeval Hindu temple.



A sixth vault, unopened for more than 140 years, is to be inspected overnight, while a seventh, with reinforced iron walls, cannot be opened without a further court order.





The stockpile, which also includes a gold sheaf weighing 500 kilograms, a 36-kilogram golden veil and a massive idol of Lord Vishnu studded with diamonds and other gems, has been uncovered in the previously locked vaults of the Lord Padmanabha temple.

Estimates of the treasure's worth continue to climb as more and more is uncovered.



The government is saying it is worth somewhere in the order of Rupees500 billion ($10.2 billion) but a retired high court judge, C.S. Rajan, who is helping evaluate the find, has said it could be worth up to Rupees1 trillion ($20.4 billion).

Publicly, however, no one has yet seen so much as a bangle.

The treasure trove is being kept a closely guarded secret while the court-appointed panel of experts sorts through the vaults and makes a formal evaluation.



Unsurprisingly, security has been stepped up at the temple, with surveillance cameras and alarms installed and armed commandos drafted in to stand guard.

Despite the intense security surrounding the temple, some tantalising snippets of gossip about what lies within continue to leak out.

It's been reported that nearly 1000 kilograms of gold coins, some from the East India Company and others from the Napoleonic era, are in the vaults, along with sacks full of diamonds from Burma and Sri Lanka, rope wound from gold and pure-gold human figurines.



Dedicated to Lord Vishnu, one of Hinduism's pre-eminent deities, the Padmanabha temple was built in the 16th century by Travancore (the forerunner to the modern-day state of Kerala) kings. The reserve within is believed to be the royals' secret stash.

Since Indian independence in 1947, a trust run by descendants of the Travancore royal family has run the temple and the government has offered assurances the cache will not be seized.

''The wealth belonged to the temple and it will be preserved where it was found. There is religious and historical significance to the findings. The state will ensure its security,'' Kerala's chief minister, Oommen Chandy, said.



A historian and former director of the Indian Council of Historical Research, M.G.S. Narayanan, warned estimates of the treasure's worth could be wildly inaccurate.

''These are antique pieces and it's not possible to determine their prices,'' he said.

with Som Patidar

About this:

''The wealth belonged to the temple and it will be preserved where it was found. There is religious and historical significance to the findings. The state will ensure its security,'' Kerala's chief minister, Oommen Chandy, said

Oomen chandy is a famous christian=terrorist:

1. That he is a christian, one can read in post 163 of http://www.india-forum.com/forums/index....__p__46579

2. Plus, that he is famous for terrorising Hindu temples (well, when he's in charge, Hindu temples get terrorised - you do the math):

http://www.india-forum.com/forums/index....__p__63124

In Kerala, when Mr Oomen Chandy was the Chief Minister, an attempt was made to divert Guruvayur Devaswom funds for installation of a sewage treatment plant and a water supply scheme for the area. In Orissa, lands belonging to the famous Jagannath Temple at Puri are being sold by Government to deal with the temple's financial crunch- something brought about by gross mismanagement of the temple's affairs by the Government.

So how will the Temple's wealth be magically preserved in the Kovil? Why, by installing fakes to take their place, as has been done often enough - while christian looters make away with what belongs to Hindu Gods/religion. Same as that other christian=terrorist Prachanda and his "maoist" christian gang have been attempting with the Pashupatinath Kovil in Nepal.





The following HK comment was already posted earlier on in the christianism thread:

http://www.india-forum.com/forums/index...._p__110571

Sattanathan

31/01/2011 05:10:32 Repeat of Tamilnadu Temple loot

All the gold and jewels of Lord Padmanabha will henceforth adorn the ladies of commie and congi dealers, just like DMK and ADMK bastards looted Temple jewels of Sri Ranganathar, Srirangam and all other Temples of Tamilnadu, replacing them with fakes over time. Kudos to Demonocracy. Hindus of entire country must rise up as one person and stop this loot.