KUTALAMANIKYAM

Now look to his radiant face lighted up by the inner joy, emerging to surge forward to merge with the streaming joyous tears of his affectionate elder brother Srirama in whom he saw his father, mother, King and God in ideal state. His entire physical frame thrilled with inexplicable joy at Hanuman's communication of the successful return of Srirama after dustasamhar. 

The infinite joy welling up in eyes and fluttering of heart for meeting of the long absent brother are conceived and represented in the face by the masterly sculptured archamurthi of this shrine of Kutalamanikyam at Irinjalakuda. The Mulavirat-Bharat's facial expression represents that inexplicable joy for his happy union with the brother.

This single, solitary, sublime shrine enshrining the image of ideal Bharata in that anxious mood is the only one of that kind built for Bharata in the whole of Jumbudwipa, nor is there any other exclusively built for any purpose in any mood in India or abroad. 

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