{"id":22966,"date":"2016-10-24T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=22963&preview_id=22963"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:31:45","slug":"destruction-of-antique-and-uniquely-designed-temple-golden-headgear-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=22966","title":{"rendered":"Destruction of Antique and Uniquely Designed Temple Golden Headgear in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tripunithura Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple is unique in the history of Bharat\u00a0because it had\u00a015 golden headgears, whose antiquity is more than 400 years. \u00a0The erstwhile Maharaja of Kochi had donated 14 of them to the British to build the railway line to Kochi, in Kerala, a century ago. This well accepted history is known to all of us. Lord Sree Poornathrayeesa is the owner of all the properties of the temple including this antique heritage property. Cochin Devaswom Board is the custodian of this property which is supposed to preserve and protect these monuments. Sree Poornathrayeesa Seva Sangham is an advisory body of the temple with a very limited role to help the Devaswom Board to conduct the annual festivals.<\/p>\n

We all were happy in learning that the Devaswom Board had decided to construct a new Golden Head Gear (Thalekkettu) out of the broken gold available in the temple and from the central stock of the Board. The devotees were happy and willing to contribute for the same. This was given on record to the Devaswom Officer by some of the senior members of Kochi Royal Family and some devotees. The Seva Sangham had collected\/is collecting funds from the devotees for the same.<\/p>\n

But to the utmost dismay and shock of\u00a0the devotees, they have decided to use the traditional antique heritage \u201cthalekkettu\u201d for the construction of the new one.\u00a0 The court permitted only to implement the decision of Devaswom Board which is to construct a new \u201cthalekkettu\u201d. Under the guise of this order, they were trying to destroy the existing traditional \u201cthalekkettu\u201d.<\/strong> It is\u00a0shocking that the decision to melt the old traditional \u201cthalekkettu\u201d was taken in a meeting where the Thantri (head priest of Hindu temples in Kerala) was not present!<\/p>\n

The single prayer of the devotees and members of Kochi Royal Family before the authorities and the court was to decide the question of the antiquity of the \u201cthalekkettu\u201d first, and if it is found to be an antique heritage property preserve the same. The\u00a0munsiff court which is supposed to be lowest in the ladder of judiciary, well appreciated the issue in real sense, unlike the highest court<\/strong> of the state and granted an injunction order.<\/p>\n

In order to overcome the injunction order granted by the learned munsiff court, the Seva Sangham rushed to the high court and with an unprecedented move the suit was called into high court and munsiff court\u2019s injunction order was vacated within 48 hours<\/span><\/span>! This was reversed by the Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court of Bharat\u00a0which\u00a0directed the high court of Kerala to decide the questions in the suit and writ petition; till then the status quo granted by the apex court will continue.<\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0 the questions\u00a0remaining\u00a0are why Devaswom Board officials and Seva Sangham Office bearers wanted to destroy the existing \u201cthalekkettu\u201d under the guise of construction of new one?\u00a0Why these authorities are reluctant to test the antique and heritage value of the \u201cthalekkettu\u201d?\u00a0What is the authority of Seva Sangham to make applications in the court for and on behalf of Devaswom Board when the Devaswom Board itself is arrayed as a party and remained a mute spectator throughout the proceedings?<\/p>\n

The statutory authorities have a bounden duty to act in just, fair and transparent manner. Why are they keeping all information under the carpet<\/strong>, not even answering simple queries under the RTI act?<\/p>\n

Is it not suspicious when the contractor requests for whooping 41% additional raw material (gold) for the construction of new \u201cthalekkettu\u201d and the officials agree for the same in NO time? Also deciding at the same moment to melt the antique and uniquely designed golden head gear to supply the additional quantity of raw material! All this happened on Feb 25, 2016, when you had\u00a09 long months to go for the next use of the golden head gear! The golden head gear is needed only on Dec 1,\u00a02016\u00a0<\/span><\/span>(Thrikketta).<\/p>\n

These questions are arising at a time when the question of the return of the Kohinoor diamond from Britain is engaging the attention of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

No one questions the authority of Devaswom Board to decide to make a new \u201cthalekkettu\u201d. But that is not a reason not to test the antiqueness of the existing property. If we quote the media, this once again highlighted the glaring inadequacies in protecting our monuments that has prevailed over decades, and the Devaswom Board and Seva Sangham have given chances to the media to report this equating it with stories of smuggling of \u201cparrot lady<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

The CDB (Cochin Devaswom Board)\u00a0officials, some of the Seva Sangham Office Bearers and sycophants\u00a0of Seva Sangham office bearers accuse the people who ran from pillar to post to protect the old traditional antique and uniquely designed Golden Head Gear! Don\u2019t they (the destruction committee and no more advisory committee) have the common sense to protect such a heritage property!<\/strong> Interesting to hear from a sycophant\u00a0of Seva Sangham office bearer (regarding the destruction of head gear) that \u201cWhen you starve at your home, dont you sell the gold stuff?\u201d<\/p>\n

Does that mean our Sree Poornathrayeesan is starving! IF SO, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? And when you starve, will you buy new gold or get proper food? Such idiots are now committee members of the Seva Sangham. What else could be expected when the traditional festival is considered by the advisory committee to just uphold their relationship with the elephant contractors\/owners and NOTHING ELSE for Sree Poornathrayeesan! They won\u2019t pay even for the flower garlands which are meant for the Lord!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So for this Thrikketta Purappadu, if our Lord Sree Poornathrayeesan is forced NOT to have Golden Head Gear, its JUST BECAUSE OF YOU, THE IMMATURE AND IRRESPONSIBLE BUNCH OF IDIOTS AT COCHIN DEVASWOM BOARD AND SREE POORNATHRAYEESA SEVA SANGHAM!! You are answerable to the devotees. An advisory committee is selected to protect the belongings of Lord and NOT TO DESTROY them!<\/p>\n

Devotees of Lord Sree Poornathrayeesa, permit me to quote Swami Vivekananda; \u201cArise and Awake!\u201d\u00a0Let us not give the current authorities another chance to destroy some other antique and unique monuments.<\/p>\n

May Lord Sree Poornathrayeesan shower his choicest blessings on you!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Krishnan Venkatraman (author)<\/p>\n

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Tripunithura Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple is unique in the history of Bharat\u00a0because it had\u00a015 golden headgears, whose antiquity is more than 400 years. \u00a0The erstwhile Maharaja of Kochi had donated 14 of them to the British to build the railway line to Kochi, in Kerala, a century ago. This well accepted history is known to all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}