LORD RANGANATHA OF SRIRANGAPATTANA

INTRODUCTION

The holy river Cauvery, one of the premier rivers of the Dakshinapatha and the veritable Jeevanadi of two prosperous states in down South has been playing a vital role in enriching the cultural life of the south, besides yielding bumper harvests to the farmers, particularly turning Tamil Nadu into the granary of the south. Its very source, long course and merging with Ratnakara the Bay of Bengal have a special sanctity and oddity that glorified Hinduism with certain happenings at the origin, on its banks and at its confluence. They are enshrined in the scriptures and have been inspiring the thiestic community from time immemorial. The legends are quite numerous, and varied. and they indeed threw a halo round her head due to divine association it has, and encircling the lives of some of the illustrious sages and dauntless warrior-emperors, who were moulded by her, and they in turn adored her in an exemplary manner. By its perennial flow and intrinsic virtues, it produced intellectual giants of a superior calibre whose contributions are deemed master-pieces of eternal importance, in addition to filling the granaries of two states as a matter of fact. More prominently, the temples built on its banks have deified it first and last. And of the many Srirangapattana occupies a pre-eminent place and it is the first of its kind by virtue of embodying certain uniques like the seat of administration of enlightened Kings, reputed for their religious tolerance etc.

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