Meenakshi temple gets a new 'Linga'
M R Venkatesh, Chennai, MAR 19 2011, 21:04 ISTUPDATED: NOV 19 2018, 15:02 IST
With two main shrines - one for Goddess Meenakshi and the other for Lord Shiva or Sundareshwarar- and as many as 12 ‘gopurams’, this huge temple complex built by Pandya kings and successively rebuilt during the Nayak period after the Muslim ruler Malik Kafur’s invasion in AD 1310 had largely undone the structure, its esoteric impact has never waned. A narrative tradition has it that the Lord’s sanctum was closed for nearly 50 years under Muslim rule. But when the temple authorities later reo...
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With two main shrines - one for Goddess Meenakshi and the other for Lord Shiva or Sundareshwarar- and as many as 12 ‘gopurams’, this huge temple complex built by Pandya kings and successively rebuilt during the Nayak period after the Muslim ruler Malik Kafur’s invasion in AD 1310 had largely undone the structure, its esoteric impact has never waned. A narrative tradition has it that the Lord’s sanctum was closed for nearly 50 years under Muslim rule. But when the temple authorities later reo...
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/content/147148/meenakshi-temple-gets-linga.html
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