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A book, Mannarasala Sree Nagaraja Temple: Coiled successful Divine Mystique, brought out by The Hindu Group of Publications, was released connected Wednesday.
Mannarasala Amma Savitri Antharjanam released the publication astatine a relation held astatine the temple. She received a transcript from Sridhar Aranala, Vice President, Sales and Distribution, The Hindu.
Addressing the function, M.S. Nagadas, a temple spot member, said that the advancement of immoderate nine depended connected the knowing of its identity.
Mr. Aranala recalled the efforts of The Hindu Group of Publications to papers the affluent practice of the country.
“Our changeless endeavour has been to bring the scholar adjacent to the taxable we constitute a publication on. So far, we person successfully completed 190 titles, with the progressive enactment of our partners and readers. The Hindu’s Shrine Series has been astatine the forefront of our publications,” helium said.
M.K. Kesavan Namboodiri, a subordinate of the temple trust, presided.
M.G. Jayakumar, M.N. Jayadevan, members of the trust, and Suresh Kumar Pillai, General Manager and Head of Circulation, The Hindu (Kerala), spoke.
The 96-page book, featuring a sweeping scope of photographs, explores the unsocial socio-religious and ecological scenery of 1 of the country’s astir important centres of Naga worship. It highlights the temple’s uncommon matriarchal legacy, wherever the Valiya Amma (Mannarasala Amma), the woman of the eldest antheral subordinate of the Mannarasala Illam, serves arsenic the main priestess, a contented unbroken for centuries amid the country’s sphere of priesthood said to beryllium dominated by men.
The publication details however religion is inextricably linked to nature, specifically the ineffable groves oregon ‘Kavus’ that situation the shrine, which are ecological strongholds containing implicit 30,000 Naga idols.
Recording past done antithetic sources, including assemblage accounts, the publication incorporates the 17th period observations of Dutch traveller Johan Nieuhof and a VOC study by Commander Hendrik van Rheede that documented Naga veneration, on with the elaborate 19th period statement of the temple’s premises and rituals provided by British missionary Samuel Mateer.
The publication besides covers the rituals, large festivals, assorted deities, household past of the Illam, Naga iconography, and the heavy mythological value of Nagas successful Hindu thought.
