Sri Ramanuja's Image at Srirangam
The unique likeness fashioned over the site of his interment (родро┐ро░рпБрокрпНрокро│рпНро│ро┐ / рдмреГрдиреНрджрд╛рд╡рдирдореН)
Sri Ramanuja is the only personage whose remains were interred inside the Great Temple precincts, in the manner of Svami Nammalvar’s interment within the ─Бvaraс╣Зam of Sri Adi Piran’s temple in Alvar Tirunagari. The m┼лla image of the acharya was raised over the site of his interment and hence it is known as the Image per se, t─Бn ─Бna tirum─Уni (родро╛ройро╛рой родро┐ро░рпБроорпЗройро┐). It is fashioned of plaster and receives, twice a year, a coat of camphor mixed with saffron, which accounts for its ochre/orange tint. This special observance has continued for the last eight centuries and a half.
Image of Sri Ramanuja “as he was”
Srirangam - родро╛ройро╛рой родро┐ро░рпБроорпЗройро┐
Photo by Koyil Tirumanjanam S. Kannan
This being a plaster image, needs to be touched up on the occasion it receives the coating. The later-day photograph shows the visage distortion caused by careless ‘dressing’.
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Comparison of Sri Ramanuja’s visage (родро┐ро░рпБроорпБроХроорогрпНроЯро▓роорпН) as it was, and as mis-fashioned later | |