{"id":34266,"date":"2016-12-11T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/154323959376"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T13:08:03","slug":"an-ancient-temple-renovated-album-with-photos-indradyumna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=34266","title":{"rendered":"An Ancient Temple Renovated (Album with photos) \nIndradyumna&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_oi0jjgEXHb1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oi0jjgEXHb1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oi0jjgEXHb1sbj0vuo1_500-125x187.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Ancient Temple Renovated (Album with photos) <br \/>\nIndradyumna Swami: When Sri Rangam was invaded by Muslim conquerors in the early 13th century almost the entire Vaisnava population was exterminated. Only 750 devotees managed to escape and create a small village some distance from Sri Rangam. There they established a beautiful deity looking much like their beloved Rangunath, who was hidden during the Muslim invasion. Through the centuries the village and it\u2019s temple fell into disrepair until a few years ago, when Murali Bhattar, a priest in the Sri Rangam temple, renovated the temple and began the worship of the deity again. Today we visited that small village. The deity was gorgeous. On the way back to Sri Rangam we stopped by another important temple. Vedic culture is still prominent in South India.<br \/>\nFind them here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/YwnPwg\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/YwnPwg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/c0df51e8e6182d80ca7ae7e48144e6fc\/tumblr_oi0jjgEXHb1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>An Ancient Temple Renovated (Album with photos) <br \/>\nIndradyumna Swami: When Sri Rangam was invaded by Muslim conquerors in the early 13th century almost the entire Vaisnava population was exterminated. Only 750 devotees managed to escape and create a small village some distance from Sri Rangam. There they established a beautiful deity looking much like their beloved Rangunath, who was hidden during the Muslim invasion. Through the centuries the village and it&rsquo;s temple fell into disrepair until a few years ago, when Murali Bhattar, a priest in the Sri Rangam temple, renovated the temple and began the worship of the deity again. Today we visited that small village. The deity was gorgeous. On the way back to Sri Rangam we stopped by another important temple. Vedic culture is still prominent in South India.<br \/>\nFind them here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/YwnPwg\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/YwnPwg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36329,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34266\/revisions\/36329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}