World's richest Temple Sri Padmanabha Swamy Temple | Trivandrum | India's Oldest & Golden Temple 🙏

Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, is one of the 108 Divya Desams, considered the sacred abodes of Vishnu in the Sri Vaishnava tradition. Adi Shankara had created sacred hymns on Anantha Padmanabha and it is an important holy site for Smartha Tradition. The temple is built in an intricate fusion of the Kerala style and the Dravidian style of architecture, featuring high walls, and a 16th-century gopuram.

The principal deity is Padmanabhaswamy, a form of Vishnu enshrined in the "Anantashayana" posture, engaged in eternal yogic sleep on his serpent mount named Adi Shesha. The Temple has been referred to in the (only recorded) Sangam period literature several times. In the Garbhagriha, Padmanabha reclines on the serpent Anantha or Adi Sesha. The serpent has five hoods facing inwards, signifying contemplation. The deity's right hand is placed over a Shiva lingam. Sridevi-Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity and Bhudevi the Goddess of Earth, two consorts of Vishnu, are by his side. Brahma emerges on a lotus, which emanates from the navel of the deity.

Many conventional historians and scholars are of the opinion that one of the names that the Temple had, "The Golden Temple", was in cognisance of the Temple being already unimaginably wealthy by that point (early Sangam period). Even with only the five smaller of the reported eight vaults being opened (the larger three vaults and all their ante-chambers still remaining closed), the treasure found so far is considered to be by far the largest collection of items of gold and fully precious stones in the recorded history of the world.

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