> huge diamonds which were placed as the eyes of the idol. > Both of them were stolen. > One of them is said to be the Hope Diamond. > The other is supposed to be the Orloff Diamond > One of them is known as the 'Brahma's Eye'.
I was taken aback by this fact. If you look at ranganatha's eye very closely today, you can see that they are not in good shape. Infact the part looks damaged. If you do a comparison of the idol with any other perumal idol - including thirupathi - you can feel the difference easily. Infact the mouth portion also looks damaged. Probably they filled the gaps with metal after the diamonds were looted. What a pity !
Web sources talk about orloff diamond as the one belonging to sri ranganatha - but hope diamond ?? Which one is the "brahma's eye" and why it was called so ?? One website says that the french guy looted only one diamond - what happened to the other ??
How many hidden facts !!
Thanks a lot for bringing this up ! Startling revelation !
> Is there a movie on Ramanuja? > When was it taken? > Any CDs, tapes available?
This is really a very good movie. GV Iyer took 3 movies on three religious seers - adi shankara, ramanuja and madhva - produced by Subbirami reddi. He also took a very nice film on swami vivekananda in which mithun chakraborthy played (lived!) as Sri ramakrishna paramahamsa.
You must see all these movies. Songs are excellent - beyond comparison ! But you will hardly find them in CD shops etc in Malaysia / singapore. Nore sure about India These were shown in doordarshan only once. I have been searching for vivekananda VCD for quite a while.
Hi Sankara is he firs Sanskrit movie produced. G V iyer directed it and it was produced by NFDC and GV Iyer.I dont remember who produced Ramanuja. This is a Tamil movie. Subbirami reddy produced the movie GITA directed by GV Iyer.
Apart frm the urangavilli episode rightly quoted by Dr.JB aiya, there should be more to this.
I'm not sure about the references to this diamond eyes in prabhanthams. Srirangam is the only place sung by all the 12 alwars. We need to work on this.
The french guy takes away only one diamond - as per the websites. What happened to the next ?
How this french guy was able to extract (pluck out !) the diamond ? Did he damage the face of the lord ?? It would have been very difficult and might have required much more time... cannot happen just like that...
There is more to it that what meets the eye.
Hope I already wrote about how the old perumal statue was identified and accepted in the temple (by an old washerman) - there are now 2 utsava moorthys in the garbagraha : Azhagiya manavalan (whom we all know & worship) and Thiruvaranga maaligaiyar (kept slightly away near moovavar's padham)
When you are comming round(pradakshanam).. in srirangam.. people used to say that there are some visible foot steps..
Iam not sure about this Real/story about the Foot steps of perumal in the "Prakaram" in srirangam.. how far this news is true.. any info..!!!Any one seen this..?