Who made golden coating to Tirumala Sri Venkateswara Temple Garbhalaya Gopuram (Sanktum Sanktorum)?
Varanasi Bharadwaj,
The three tiered Golden Gopuram is called, “Ananda Nilayam”.
13th century Gold sheets were replaced by TTD in 1960s. It took 5 years to complete it (1964?).
The best quality gold was chiseled into plates and riveted onto the copper plates. No worship could not be performed at Sanctum Sanctorum and the power of the chief idol was shifted to temporary idol and worship is done at “Bala Aalayam (Child Temple)” elsewhere in the temple. (hence the name Balaji?)
History of Ananda Nilayam - Initial Construction:
In 13th century, Pandya King Kulasekhara Pandiyan was powerful to win over Chozhas for ever.
- The Hoysalas were routed from Kannanur around 1279 by Kulasekhara Pandiyan and in the same war the last Chola emperor Rajendra III was routed and the Chola empire ceased to exist thereafter. Thus the Chola empire was completely overshadowed by the Pandiyan empire and sank into obscurity and ceased to exist by the end of the 13th century.
On his victory, the Pandiyan king Jatavarman Sundara Pandiyan (son of Kulasekhara Pandiyan) gold-plated the roof and donated the gilded Kalasam. Viranarasingaraya, a Pallava-allied king of Pandiya King performed thulabhara (weighing oneself) against gold; his weight in gold was used to make the gold-plated copper sheets to cover the Vimana.
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