India: Treasure unearthed in Kerala temple

[Avishek]

I want 1% share of that.not much only 750 cr rupees.

 

[sab]

Indians had the habit of accumulating wealth in religious places instead of using them for public or atleast for the defence of the state. This not only made the places a target for foreighners but made the sacred places corrupted. If any wealth found in any temple , the Indian people are owner of it, and it should be used for them only. Education, health, transportation,irrigation........

 

[Break the Silence]

Indians had the habit of accumulating wealth in religious places instead of using them for public or atleast for the defence of the state. This not only made the places a target for foreighners but made the sacred places corrupted. If any wealth found in any temple , the Indian people are owner of it, and it should be used for them only. Education, health, transportation,irrigation........

Agree, but what is use of money that is under Govt rule, still major part of it lands in Swiss accounts.. Infact, from centuries over centuries.. India has been a country with a widen gap between rich and poor.. same still continues..

 

[Evil Flare]

Well my suggestion is to make 1 small Museum city , & set this treasure antiques there , tourism will boom there

 

[sab]

Well my suggestion is to make 1 small Museum city , & set this treasure antiques there , tourism will boom there

Yeah...that will help in employment directly and indirectly. Atleast 1000 security guards will get jobs..

 

[Ajaxpaul]

75000 cr and this does not include the value of Antiques...WoW

15 billion dollars till now, This can make kerala, debt free.

 

[gulte]

Well my suggestion is to make 1 small Museum city , & set this treasure antiques there , tourism will boom there

No point in keeping all the antiques there, its just waste of money and resources, they will be well off in the hands of private collectors. Better to auction them and deposit the money on the name of deity of temple and use the interest for social organizations that run by temple.

 

[SpArK]

Finally some good news.

The wealth of the temple will rest with the temple itself." - CM​

"Sree Padmanabha Swami Temple is the pride of Kerala. The wealth of the temple will rest with the temple itself.

These were given as offerings to Sree Padmanabha. The government is totally committed to give high level protection to the temple, since it is the onus of the government" said CM after convening a high level meeting at Trivandrum.

While providing security, government will make sure that the customs and traditions of the temple remain undisturbed.

Oomen Chandy said that the government has decided to provide two types of security- temporary and permanent. The temporary security would come into effect tonight itself. A control room would be set up at Fort Police Station and a 24 hour police patrolling would be implemented around the temple.

Regarding long term security measures, CM said that Additional Chief secretary (Home) would give the recommendations to the committee designated by the Supreme Court and the government would implement further security arrangements with the consent of the Supreme Court.

CM also said that the security measures would be discussed with the Maharaja and Tantri. All the expenses of the security measures would be met by the government.

CM also requested the media not to promulgate the detailed security measures.

"The wealth of the temple will rest with the temple itself." - CM

 

[Subramanian]

Indians had the habit of accumulating wealth in religious places instead of using them for public or atleast for the defence of the state. This not only made the places a target for foreighners but made the sacred places corrupted. If any wealth found in any temple , the Indian people are owner of it, and it should be used for them only. Education, health, transportation,irrigation........

Why use them in public?Gold is the best Inflation hedge and why not keep them as a patrimony of the indian state and even better,it should belong only to the travancore state alone.That kingdom did all the savings and they deserve all the benefits.

 

[Hunzaghazi]

oh common 75 K crore is grossly overstated figure.

 

[Ajaxpaul]

Why use them in public?Gold is the best Inflation hedge and why not keep them as a patrimony of the indian state and even better,it should belong only to the travancore state alone.That kingdom did all the savings and they deserve all the benefits.

LOL...travancore is in Kerala state..LOL

 

[somebozo]

Many indians kings and rich traders deposit their wealth into temples because they were considered safe due to their sacred status.
This is what attracted Mehmood Ghaznavi to invade various Indian temples to build a rich Afghanistan.

 

[madooxno9]

Lets Open ONE more Vault ..........and do One more MMCR

MMCRA 2 ..........



LOL

 

[Ajaxpaul]

Temple of boom: Rs 1 lakh crore and counting


THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Call it the mother of all treasure hunts. The stock-taking by a panel of experts at the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple has catapulted the shrine located here to the country's richest, with reports claiming that the value of recoveries may have touched close to Rs 1 lakh crore, more than Kerala public debt of Rs 70,969 crore.

With one more "secret" vault yet to be opened, the figure in all likelihood will go up further. But sources said the figures could only be speculation as it wasn't possible to determine the antique value of the precious gems and jewellery. "These are antique pieces and it's not possible to determine their prices," said historian and former director of Indian Council of Historical Research M G S Narayanan. In other words, the worth of the treasure could be intimidatingly higher.

The Supreme Court-appointed committee on Sunday refused to confirm reports about the value of the recoveries, saying that its mandate is limited to making an inventory of the assets.

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy said the treasure would remain with the temple. "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," Chandy told reporters on Sunday.

Chandy said the police would patrol the shrine 24X7 and a control room had already started functioning. "Permanent security arrangements will be put in place only after consultations with the chief priest of the temple and the Travancore king who is the caretaker of the shrine," the CM said.

A source said the seven-member panel was stunned by what it found in the secret vault marked `A' during its inspection on Thursday. There were close to 1,000 kg of gold coins, some of these from the East India Company era and Napolean's period, about one tonne of gold in the form of rice trinkets, sack full of diamonds said to be from Burma and Sri Lanka, a rope made of gold and thousands of pieces of rare 'sarappoli' necklaces.

The stock-taking continued next day as only 30% of the assets could be counted on Thursday. Again there were surprises in the form of a three-and-a-half feet tall idol of Lord Vishnu studded with diamonds, emeralds and rubies, an 18-feet-long ornament used to adorn the deity and weighing 35 kg and 1 feet tall human figurines weighing 1 kg each. There were coins marked 1772 indicating they were from the era of former Travancore ruler Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma better known as `Dharma Raja' for his strict adherence to the rules of 'dharma'.

Entry was strictly forbidden for the media and public to the site. There are six vaults marked A to F in the shrine. The A and B cellars have never been opened after 1872. The panel had set out on the job on June 27 and opened three vaults marked C, D and F till Wednesday.

The observers, retired Kerala high court judge Justice M N Krishnan and Justice C S Rajan, said it was difficult give an exact date when the stock-taking would be completed. The B and E vaults remain to be opened.

Narayanan said there were specific documents called 'Mathilakam records' which speak about the history of the shrine and about how the assets came into it. "The temple has been known since the 9th Century and figures in the writings of that time. Native ruler of Travancore (then pricely state) Marthanda Varma had given away all the wealth to the deity and ruled the kingdom as the Lord's agent."

"Travancore was a very prosperous state and with its port facilities, traded in spices, sandalwood and ivory. The foreign currency recovered from the vaults may have come in through the trade.

Temple of boom: Rs 1 lakh crore and counting - The Times of India

 

[sab]

Why use them in public?Gold is the best Inflation hedge and why not keep them as a patrimony of the indian state and even better,it should belong only to the travancore state alone.That kingdom did all the savings and they deserve all the benefits.

The King of Travancore is the the owner of it, but it should be confiscated for not paying property taxes since 1947..

Dont speak about inflation hedge....people in Gujrat (Somnath might thought that too...all ended in reaching Gajni).......It is a bad tradition, corrupt practice to accumulate wealth in any religious places and testify how corrupt our priest classes were (they are so even today)....throughout the ages the priest class is opressing the lower classes and themselves becoming wealthy. If government dont take the possession or they dont make a concrete policy to utilise it, I will wish someone like Mahmood to come and loot it....