Bombay Kannan being felicitated by advocate Vignesh on the screening of the documentary Arangayanam at Rasika Ranjana Sabha in Tiruchi on Sunday. Author J. Raman is at left.
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The 48-year journey of Sri Azhagiya Manavaalan, processional deity of Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, was showcased within the documentary Arangayanam, screened on the Rasika Ranjana Sabha on Sunday.
The screening was inaugurated on the sabha theatre with felicitations supplied by J. Ramanan and Vrinda Ramanan, authors of the books Srirangam, Bhooloka Vaikuntam and Tirumala, Kaliyuga Vaikuntam, and P.Okay. Thiagarajan. The documentary, curated and narrated by Bombay Kannan, begins within the 14th century through the Delhi Sultanate invasions. It provides an in depth account of the individuals who safeguarded the deity, giving up their lives within the course of. Mr. Kannan has used references from the scriptures, inscriptions on the temple partitions, the Koil Ozhugu (a collection of books that doc the historical past of the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple) and different historic paperwork to substantiate all of the occasions and incidents. The documentary retraces 12 places, the place the deity was carried.
Vaishnavasri Krishnamachari’s detailed account of sure lesser-known truths, are a noteworthy complement. Videography had been carried out by J. Ganesan.
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