New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirappalli, the place he was introduced with a present by the clergymen to be taken to the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The Prime Minister, who was wearing a standard veshti and angavastram, supplied prayers on the historic temple, which is devoted to Lord Ranganatha, a reclining type of Lord Vishnu. He additionally fed and blessed an elephant named ‘Andal’ within the temple premises.
PM Modi then listened to a scholar who recited verses from the ‘Kambaramayanam’, a 12th-century Tamil epic written by poet Kambar. The ‘Kambaramayanam’ is among the oldest variations of the Ramayana, and it’s believed that Kambar had first publicly narrated his work on the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, profitable the admiration of the folks.
The Prime Minister sat in the identical platform or mantapa within the temple, the place Kambar had sung the Tamil Ramayana, highlighting the robust bond between Tamil Nadu and Sri Ram.
The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple is among the largest and most revered Hindu temples on this planet. It is usually often called Srirangam Temple, and it homes the deity of Nam Perumal or Azahagiya Manavaalan, that means “our god” or “lovely groom” in Tamil. The temple is alleged to have been constructed throughout the Vijayanagara interval (1336-1565).
After Srirangam, the Prime Minister will journey to Rameswaram and carry out darshan and pooja on the Sri Arulmigu Ramanathaswamy Temple. He will even attend a programme referred to as ‘Shri Ramayana Paryana’, the place he’ll hear the Ramayana chanted in numerous languages, equivalent to Marathi, Malayalam and Telugu. That is a part of the Prime Minister’s observe of visiting a number of temples and listening to the Ramayana in numerous languages in the previous few days.
