{"id":49705,"date":"2025-06-10T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49705"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:58:19","slug":"sree-padmanabhaswamy-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sree-padmanabhaswamy-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A &#8216;Maha Kumbhabhishekam&#8217; was recently performed at the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram after 270 years.<\/p>\n<h2>About Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>Hindu temple<\/strong>\u00a0dedicated to Lord Vishnu located in Thiruvananthapuram (<strong>Trivandrum), Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The name of the city of Thiruvananthapuram in Malayalam translates to \u201cThe City of Lord Ananta, \u201dreferring to the deity of Padmanabhaswamy Temple.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>earliest recorded mention<\/strong>\u00a0of the temple is from the\u00a0<strong>8th or 9th century CE,\u00a0<\/strong>although the\u00a0<strong>temple is likely older.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The temple was\u00a0<strong>built and rebuilt over the centuries,<\/strong>\u00a0most\u00a0<strong>recently by Martanda Varma, king of Travancore,<\/strong>\u00a0who<strong>\u00a0in 1750 donated the kingdom to the deity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Architecture<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a blend of\u00a0<strong>Kerala and Dravidian styles\u00a0<\/strong>of architecture.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>idol\u00a0<\/strong>of Vishnu is in the\u00a0<strong>Anantha shayanam posture,<\/strong>\u00a0the eternal y<strong>ogic rest posture on his serpent Adisheshan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0<strong>seven-tier-high gopuram,<\/strong>\u00a0which is decorated with delicate designs and carvings.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Along with exquisite and intricate works on stone and bronze, the interior of the temple is adorned by\u00a0<strong>exquisite paintings and murals,\u00a0<\/strong>most of which are life-sized depictions of Lord Vishnu in the reclining posture, Lord Ganapati, Gaja Lakshmi, and Narasimha Swamy (half-lion, half-man incarnation of Lord Vishnu).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>flag post<\/strong>\u00a0of the temple (dhwaja stamba) is\u00a0<strong>covered with gold-plated copper sheets<\/strong>\u00a0and is about 80 ft high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The temple has around\u00a0<strong>3 million palm leaf manuscripts<\/strong>\u00a0dating back to the 1<strong>4th century CE.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Known as Mathilakam records,<\/strong>\u00a0they contain the\u00a0<strong>administrative and financial details of\u00a0<\/strong>the temple town and\u00a0<strong>Travancore kingdom\u00a0<\/strong>spread over six centuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 2011\u00a0<\/strong>the temple was the subject of international news when an\u00a0<strong>exploration of its vaults revealed<\/strong>\u00a0a wealthof jewels, precious metals, and other\u00a0<strong>treasures<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is also widely believed to be the\u00a0<strong>world\u2019s richest temple.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located in which Indian city?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Thiruvananthapuram<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. The architectural style of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a blend of which two traditions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kerala and Dravidian<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which ruler is credited with renovating and donating the Travancore kingdom to Lord Padmanabha?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Marthanda Varma<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/padmanabhaswamy-temple-performs-rare-grand-consecration-after-270-years-8618653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu located in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,780,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-sree-padmanabhaswamy-temple","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}