Who built the Padmanabhaswamy temple and what is hidden in the vault B, G and H?
Remember, we are talking of centuries old stuff in remote land, in remote language with no documentation. Best, we can do is remove noise that comes with beliefs, fear, sensationalism, passions of ideology/victimhood/religion/nationality/alliances/region etc. to see what rational hypothesis we can make out of it. I prefer NOT to jump into mysterious without weeding out the mundane.
It took me dozens of articles and quora posts, one lead to another to come to this hypothesis. There are TON of articles and discussions on the topic. Some where, I read that during 18th century, there are some Travencore neighboring rulers also stored their wealth in the vaults. 18th century India was a rough time, Moghuls are rapidly becoming weak, Maratha's are ascendant and they have opposition from other local groups like rajputs etc. As usual, British feeding all factions to fight with each other until both are weak to gobble up both. Here is one article on the origin of the vaults.
This article says temple is from 8th century, though other articles talk about Sangam Period( 500-200 BC). Many authors of Indian History say, there is no written documentation until 800AD. They claim most of the history built based on the writing on the pillars and so on. Religious texts like Purana is another animal hard to date, except based on the characters, themes etc. Interestingly, this temple records has ton of undeciphered audit records in very old language. So we have to take it grain of salt.
OutSky
Jedi
I came across to this Padmanabhaswamy temple story about 10 years ago. By then, the artwork made in its vault’s door mesmerized me. Creepy, for sure. And at that time, I remember, I made a quick research of what I think I didn’t save the results and means. However I can speak of what just comes to my mind at the moment.
The subcontinent India has many stories and tales of underground cities. Thus should not be a surprise if this temple has tunnels linking it to some subterraneous road or even rightly to some of those cities. For some reason I don’t think it is just and simply a type of Fort Knox. One thing, I remember, was that it traditionally was/is guarded by Brahmins, the sacerdotal Hindu cast. I tried to find a statement from one of its Brahmin guardians, that I had read, but I could not find it into my archives. But I recall that the Brahmin stated that he had access to the interior of the vaults.
Now regarding the stories of underground cities in India, those cities are told a domain of Nagas, that is, the Nagas rule most, if not all, the underground India. Not to confuse these Nagas with the human people of same name. The underground Nagas are told a reptilian race with a countenance half-snake below the waist and human-featured above the waist. As such they are feared, they are known as devourers of men, but also worshiped by some Hindu sects. Maybe this could more suitably explain the sculptured serpents in the door than those “mundane” snakes told inside of the temple.
A famous designation to an even more ample Naga underground is Patala —also called Naga-loka— but that realm seems to be some kind of otherworld —4D?!!— region, though the Bhagavata Purana regards it standing below the earth —the “bila-svargas,” i.e. subterranean castles.
The subcontinent India has many stories and tales of underground cities. Thus should not be a surprise if this temple has tunnels linking it to some subterraneous road or even rightly to some of those cities. For some reason I don’t think it is just and simply a type of Fort Knox. One thing, I remember, was that it traditionally was/is guarded by Brahmins, the sacerdotal Hindu cast. I tried to find a statement from one of its Brahmin guardians, that I had read, but I could not find it into my archives. But I recall that the Brahmin stated that he had access to the interior of the vaults.
Now regarding the stories of underground cities in India, those cities are told a domain of Nagas, that is, the Nagas rule most, if not all, the underground India. Not to confuse these Nagas with the human people of same name. The underground Nagas are told a reptilian race with a countenance half-snake below the waist and human-featured above the waist. As such they are feared, they are known as devourers of men, but also worshiped by some Hindu sects. Maybe this could more suitably explain the sculptured serpents in the door than those “mundane” snakes told inside of the temple.
A famous designation to an even more ample Naga underground is Patala —also called Naga-loka— but that realm seems to be some kind of otherworld —4D?!!— region, though the Bhagavata Purana regards it standing below the earth —the “bila-svargas,” i.e. subterranean castles.
Speaking of temples, has anyone seen this video? Its supposed to be a temple with a weird electric phenomenon.
I'm not sure but I think it's the Vam Rai temple in Vietnam. There is a Russian description at the start saying, "atmospheric electricity at top of temple."
I uploaded it myself from a longer mashup video from YouTube.
It seems to be making those weird "trumpet" sounds that people have been hearing over the past several years.
The phenomenon seems to also sway in the wind so I don't know, what do you guys think? Fake or real?
I'm not sure but I think it's the Vam Rai temple in Vietnam. There is a Russian description at the start saying, "atmospheric electricity at top of temple."
I uploaded it myself from a longer mashup video from YouTube.
It seems to be making those weird "trumpet" sounds that people have been hearing over the past several years.
The phenomenon seems to also sway in the wind so I don't know, what do you guys think? Fake or real?
I don’t know what to tell you. I looked to see if there is something related to that In other sites but I couldn’t find anything. Vam Rai like a common name for temples in the region, I don’t know the exact temple in this particular video.
Also a little bit of more zoom in the video would have help. It does look interesting but I couldn’t tell if it’s real or not. I guess more people would have it document it if that is the case.
That’s beautiful! It doesn’t seem like an old temple compare to the ones in India From previous post.
Yes, it’s very interesting. “Officially” it was built in the 1860s, but who really knows. It could have just been renovated then and its even older.
It’s also interesting that currently this building is covered up in what looks like some sort of modern renovation. If you look at google earth it was uncovered up until march of 2019. Then in august of the same year it was covered up with a green roof and scaffolding.
03/2019 08/2019
So all the street views are from before march of 2019.
This is the most current photo:
Another interesting aspect is the front gate has some intriguing imagery on top of the main arch and the golden seals on the main gates:
I could be wrong but it seems to be showing the spire illuminated.
Just some observations.
moyal
Jedi Master
Especially take notice of these vessels/bowls/spheres.
Then read this:
The Lost Key: Part 1
The Lost Key: Part 2
Given that the oldest written western account related to this temple vaults in 1933, I looked for her book and found it archive.org and I read part of it and skimmed remaining part.
About the book and Author: It is a typical travel book in which author travelled one place to other, visited different places, listened to local legends, folklore related to temples, locations, mountains etc. The local legends takes the form of puranic characters doing some supernatural ( Saint Parasurama throwing his plough from Goa into Arabian sea to create separate land for Travancore etc. - probably mythicization of geological changes) , certain God/Goddesses appeared when some body in trouble, local customs of Nair ( local warrior people), history of churches ( fight over their control) and their background and legends and so on. Author seems to be sympathetic British (understandable), thought little harsh on other Europeans ( Dutch, Portuguese) and seemed fascinated by local legends.
Here are my observations:
- The legends are snakes is common rural India and is not specific to this small southern tip. This is narrow stretch of land ( 70 miles width sandwiched between high mountains of Western Ghat's and Arabian sea. She mentioned that there are different paths in the mountains, out of which only few are passable and Nair's traditionally played the role of protectors.
- Author suggests this tip was never conquered by Muslims. Probably she is right (based on the timeline video), though I thought they were ruled for few years (based on the timeline video).
- Local warrior (Nair's) people who were part of previous rulers( Pandya's, Chola's etc.) who ruled for more than 2000 years. There have some interesting custom
- There are other accounts of where snakes ( other than this temple ) were found in the underground vaults coiling around golden pots where they stored temple assets include gold. I have to wonder, snakes naturally migrate to rarely used underground for heat and underground vaults are natural shelter. Temple offering includes lot of coconut and ingredients that are attractive to rodents. Probably, that also a factor attracting snakes to the location, though I haven't heard of the snake problems near temples. Probably, that is due to unused vaults for so long.
- Regarding the padmanabha swamy temple, her account very few lines except saying it has wealth and snakes prevented retrieval of few items they needed once, which they were able to do it after few years. It more looked like surprise shock to find snakes that became legend. Looks more like anecdote and probably no body knows how much is stored there.
- Temple assets are considered belongs to God and its governing trustees. There is NO single organizing body of Hindu religion due to its pagan nature. There are previous occasions that state governments tried to dip into temple assets and it created controversy. Generally, temples are local state government territory, not federal.
- It takes the form of religious politics. Hindu's complain of taking it, while not touching western funded Christian churches and untouchable masjids.
- No body has any appetite for any new religious conflict given that it took 75 years to resolve Babri Majid Issue to the point of silence, though no body trust each fully yet. I think this is one of the contributing factor in recent Supreme court decision allowing the defunct Travencore Raja's to continue to be Trustee's.
- Kerala State is one of the top states( economy, education etc) with multi religious ( only 50% Hindu). Recent past, BJP tried to support traditional Hindu beliefs related to temple entries and it didn't work out well. So taking the funds by force, will be marketed as anti-Hindu, the current Anti-BJP state government is not going to make it complicated.
- Even if they open it and get 1 Trillion, it will be less than thousand dollars for 1.2 billion and it will disappear in poof. Just scare the people of some virus or something, people will line up to throw what they earned.
In fact, there was a controversy in the last elections (2019) that that Modi promised few thousands for each Indian and opposition asking where is that money?. But, No body could get the video of that promise, but it is surmised that he was talking about how much black money owned by Indians in swiss bank and other people and people might have divided it by population.
It looks to me, there is lot of confirmation bias going on all over the place. religious folks looking for their own beliefs, people who see conspiracy for not opening it and different shades of politics in between.