Gods own Temple Treasure

I was not at all surprised when a treasure worth 1 Lakh Crore Rupees was found in Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Tiruvanathapurum, Kerala. Its a known fact that temples were a source of treasures from time immemorial. there were several raiders , especially the Muslim ones who targeted Hindu Temples for their treasures. the best and the most famous one is that of the Somanath temple in Gujarat, which was sacked several times starting from Mohammed Ghazni, but each time the temple was rebuilt.

The other example of Muslim Invaders sacking the Hindu Temples for their wealth was during Malik Kafur's invasion of South India. During which time he targeted and destroyed several Hindu temples, including the famous capital of Hoysalas - Belur and Halebeedu. During the fall of Vijayanagar Empire (Kuruba Kingdom of the south) the wealth of the temples were transferred to safety on top of 600 elephants.

The sincerity with which the erstwhile kings of Travancore saved the wealth of the temple is amazing and hats off to them. The wealth could have easily fallen to the hands of British -who would have shifted it to their queen's coffers in London or had fallen to the Muslim Invaders -who would have spent it on lavish life style and luxuries. The best example of Muslim rulers spending peoples money on their luxuries are the -Nizam's of Hyderabad. That chap was the richest person in the world before Independence, all he did with his wealth was spend it on luxuries and moved most of his wealth out of country to Turkey. When compared to these people the Kings of Travancore are the real God Kings who gave welfare of their people the top priority.

India has thousands of such ancient temples, I think there is several other temples across India with hidden treasure. To substantiate my point, there is Kolaramma temple in the town of Kolar, which is my birthplace. I have been going to this temple since childhood, and there in the temple is also a small place of worship for Chelamma, in front of the statue of Chelamma's a crevice between two granite blocks and it is tradition for people to put few coins into it. My mother used to tell me that it was a deep well thousands year old and people have been constantly putting in their tributes in the form of gold, silver coins etc for hundreds of years and is yet to be filled. It might be true as the Kolaramma temple itself was built by Cholas around 900AD. Even today when we drop a coin into the hole in the floor, u can actually hear a clicking sound after a while indicating the coin hitting the bottom of this well. I am sure there is a treasure in it, never before has anyone attempted to dig it out, there are several stories of hows people have been killed or found dead when they tried to dig this treasure out. My personal view is let it remain there to be used when times are really hard.