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Originally Posted by vrprabhu As also, the question about Lord Krishna's idol being recovered from the sea. |
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Originally Posted by Samurai No, there is only a window to see the main idol directly, if the disciples inside don't block your view. Apparently this used to be the rear side, where Kanakadasa was being beaten up for trying to enter the temple. According to the legend, the idol turned and every wall in-between collapsed by a miracle. They rebuilt the wall leaving a window in each wall for the Kanakadasa point of view.
The idol (hidden in clay?) was in the ship that was allegedly helped by Madhwacharaya. Did you also visit Ananteshwara temple in the same complex, that is the original temple, probably older than 1000 years. |
I'd answered your query at the very beginning itself VRP. I didn't want to jump the gun and write about kanaka gopura. But I'd answered your query about the statue at the very beginning.
See post 3 in this link
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/1972691-post3.html
And yes, First it was Kanakana kindi. If I tell the story behind the kanaka gopura, I'll land in trouble again for talking political stuff. So I'll leave it at that.
As Samurai points out Kanaka dasa was stopped from entering the temple as he was from the lower castes. When he was flogged as shown in Rajkumar movie, he sang something like Baagilanu theradhu sevayannu kodu hariye, (open the doors and give me your vision - Hari)
Krishna turned 180 degress and the back wall collapsed. From then on, Krishna has been facing the west. They made a window and called it Kanakana Kindi.
The Gopura is I'd considered as an unwanted blemish and a politico - socio - drama.
Apart from Anantheshwara temple which was the original temple in Udupi, as Samurai rightly says over 1000 years, there's also chandramouleeshwara temple, which is also very very old.
Krishna arrived in Udupi as I explained in my post.
Incidentally, one Parimalacharya was supposed to continue the head pontiff of Udupi mutt. Unfortunately, his position was taken up by pontiff's who split the mutt in to 8. So every 2 years there's change of guard in a grand function called paryaya. New mutt takes over and administers for the next 2 years till the next Paryaya.
Parimalacharya went over to a village called Maanjolai on the banks of Tunga and installed and prayed his Moolarama. He was later known as Sri Raghavendra, who should have actually taken over the udupi mutt. Maanjolai village took the name as Mantralaya (not the mumbai one).
See this is why I didn't want to jump the gun. Difficult to shut my mouth
@samurai san. It's not clay. It's Gopi chandan aka naama katti in tamil.