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Gudimallam Siva Temple – Bundle of Contradictions and Web of Lies! (Post No.13,822)
Foreigners and anti -Hindu gangs have spread lot of lies and false information about a strange Siva temple in Andhra Pradesh.
Where is Gudimallam?
It is a small village 12 kilometres from Renigunta; not far from Tirupati and Kalahasti. It is in the Rayalaseema region.
What is strange there?
The temple name is ParasuRAMEShvara!
We know the Jyotirlinga sthala RAMESwamam got its name from Rama worshipping Siva Linga there.
But this unknown temple is named after Parasu RAMA.
Parasu/battle axe makes sense because the youth in the shaft of the Linga is holding a Parasu/axe.
The Rama in the Parasurameshwara is unexplainable!
A penis like Siva Linga is installed there with a youthful figure in its shaft. The youthful figure is described by some as Rudra and hunter by others. Full of contradictions!
Why are foreigners interested in it and spreading the picture?
From the day of Harappan excavation, three Christians involved in the excavation of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro spread that Hindus worshipped human penis as Lingam and it is found in Indus (now Sarsvati Vally Civilisation).
Both are wrong; Kanchi Paramacharya (1894-1994), a great scholar has spoken about it. He and other Saivite Saints of Sixth Century pointed out that it shows the formless aspect of Lord Siva. Kanchi Shankaracharya’s (1894-1994) lectures are available in English from the Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan publications.
Great Saivite saints Appar and Sambandar (600 CE) composed 7000 Tamil Verses called Tevaram and they never said about penis.
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Now back to Gudimallam
The temple was dated 3rd century BCE to 4th century CE—a range of 700 years which show the confusion among the half baked people or the so called scholars.
World famous poet Kalidasa was also given a range of 700 years by the half baked foreigners where as sangam Tamil literature shows he belonged to first or second century BCE.
What are the contradictions in Gudimallam?
A penis like Siva Lingam was discovered from the dilapidated structures and installed there for worship in ninth century CE. The oldest inscription there belongs to Dantivikrama Pallava of 845 CE.
Strangest thing is none of the inscriptions there mentioned Gudimallam.
More contradictions…
The Siva Lingam is always found with Yoni, the base. Even in the Indus Sarasvati civilisation some circular stones were shown as Yoni but modern scholars dumped that absurd writings. There was neither Lingam nor Yoni according to modern scholars.
Another contradiction…
No Saivite saints composed any verse on this so called Gudimallam Lingam or Siva though they sang about the Kalahasti Siva temple and the Sri Sailam Siva temple which are very close to Gudimalam. (Please read my Tamil book 108 Famous Temples in Andhra and Telengana- First part, published by pustaka.co.in)
Why didn’t any ancient Saivite saint mention it?
Because it was not a Shiva Temple or it did not exist until tenth century.
Why is not a tower built?
Because it was an incomplete structure.
Why is not there a Yoni, the base for Siva Linga?
Because it was an incomplete structure.
How did the half baked pushed the date to 3rd century BCE?
Half baked vested interests guessed that the bricks in the temple looked like third century BCE bricks!!! It is like Max Muller concluding the date of Rig Veda as 1200 BCE on the basis of a Ghost Story in Katha Sarit Sagara (please read my articles in the this blog on the absurdities of Max muller).
Why did the Anti Hindu gang spread false news?
To ridicule Hindus as penis worshippers and denigrate Hinduism.
My son and Hinduism Lesson!
My son took Hinduism for GCSE in London. When it came to Shiva worship, the teacher said that the Lingam is a human penis. My son came home and asked whether it is true we worship penis in the world famous Madurai Meenakashi temple? (We visit the temple very often when we go to India and when we lived in Madurai before 1987)
I told him that the teacher was wrong, and it shows the formless feature of God Shiva and I gave him the English book of Kanchi Shankaracharya’s lectures. He went back to the teacher and explained it. He said you may write it in the exam paper but we won’t give you any mark because it is false answer.
He came back to me and told what the teacher said on this topic. I told him to go by the book otherwise he would be failed by the exam board. In America also scoundrels are spreading such false information in the text books. Unless Hindus raise their voice it will continue like Gudimallam.
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Truth about Gudimallam from Three Authors!
I got a book from the London University Library last week. Following are the details about the book:
Title-RAYALASEEMA The Royal Realm
Architecture and Art of Southern Andhra Pradesh
By Anna L Dallapiccola, George Michell, Anila Verghese
September 2014.
I give below the facts from the book:
The polished stone lingam fashioned from hard indigenous rock that forms the chief object of worship in the Parasurameshvara temple in the small village of Gudimallam, barely a kilometre from the right bank of the river Svarnamukhi.
The lingam is housed in a small temple that seems to have been built first in brick by the Banas, feudatories of the Pallavas in this part of Rayalaseema during the 9th or the 10th centuries CE.
The earliest inscribed record found here has a date equivalent to 845 CE during the reign of Pallava king Dantivikrama Pallava. However according to the inscription from the reign of Vikrama Choza, the temple was rebuilt in stone in 1127 CE.
(my comments: the temple did not exist at the time of Great Four Saints: Appar, Sambandar, Sundarar and Manikkavasagar; of the four, Maanikkavaasagar is the earliest one who never used the word Lingam in his 650+ verses in Tiruvasagam. No tower, No Yoni also prove that it was an incomplete structure; probably never consecrated when the Banas built it)
A stone image of Dakshinamurthy from the Chola period was preserved in the southern niche, but the smaller statues of Vishnu and Brahma in the other niches are later inserts.
(my comments: the three authors date other structures to Vijayannagara Period, 16th century; so what we see today is only 400 years old. A lot of modifications were done after the Pallava period).
Among the subsidiary shrines in the temple compound is one housing a fine Chola period Surya image.
The features just noticed may all be attributed to the Chola and Vijayanagara periods, yet they exhibit little architectural or artistic originality, in striking contrast from the lingam itself, which is the earliest surviving emblem of the Siva cult in southern India .
(My comments: If it is correct the Lingams in the more famous Lingam temples of Madurai, Kanchi and 200 other temples of Siva sung by the Great Four Tamil Saints are later of period? The authors are wrong. It may be a freak linga sculpted in the Pallava or Choza period. No mention of this “temple” in any Saivite records! No one sang about this God. So I repeat “No tower, No Yoni, No Tevaram compositions, No mention of Gudimallm even in the inscriptions , No pilgrimage by people, novel name of ParasuRAMESHwara- all show the Lingam and the structures are only 1000 year old. )
Authors continue…..
The lingam is 160 cms high including the UNWORKED (caps are mine) square bottom portion concealed beneath the stone floor of the sanctuary. its shaft which is part octagonal, has a dome like top with a pronounced curved groove that reproduces in a most realistic fashion the head of the male sexual organ .
The most fascinating aspect of this emblem, however, is the figure carved almost full relief onto its shaft. This depicts youth carrying a water pot and a slaughtered goat in two hands, with a parashu or a battle axe, attached on a long stick supported by his left arm and balanced against the shoulder . The face of the youth has protruding eyes, well defined eye brows, a long nose and full lips; the hair is thick and curling. He is adorned with arm and wrist bands, heavy ear rings and a necklace, and wears a transparent dhoti that clearly reveals his sex organ , and hangs in folds between his bare footed legs. The figure which is 90 cms high, stands astride a grimacing dwarf. This gana like crouching creature has a malevolent expression; his hands are held against the sides of his body, with legs barely visible.
While the lingam itself was clearly intended to receive worship as an emblem of worship, a role that it maintains to this day, there has been much speculation as to the identification of the male figure carved onto its shaft. Some scholars have suggested that he represents Rudra ,storm god referred to in the Vedas, who was later identified a as a fierce form of Shiva. However the figure has two arms only , no third eye, and the sexual organ is not shown erect, may be interpreted not as a representation of shiva , but as a huntsman who has sacrificed a goat as an offering o the god whom he has come to worship in phallic form while this view accords well with the iconography of the youth, it does not satisfactorily explain the presence of the creature on which he stands.
(My comments: here we see the contradictory view of the scholars. If it is Vedic God Rudra of Rig Veda and later Shiva in Yajur Veda, there should NOT be a Gana under the youth. No such thing is in the Vedas or in the Indus Sarasvati Pasupati figure. This is a later addition in Nataraja idols or statues of later Chola period; once again we are pushed to Choza period ; so the temple or figure is not older than 1000 years. My personal view is it may be Kannappa Nayanar who lived in that area. In Kiratarjunia of Baravi of sixth century CE we come across Siva as a hunter. There also only a boar is described and Arjuna and Shiva fighting for it. Here we see no boar or Arjuna, it may be tribal youth from the Chenju tribe of that area.
People who compared it with Harappan Pasupati or Lingas cant justify it because there are no similarities; some other half baked said that there are similar figures elsewhere, but couldn t produce any matching illustrations. The youth is a mystery. But all the above facts show it is a very late addition to Hindu architecture and may be attributed to later Chozas; the biggest proof for my view is this temple was not known to any Saivite saints of ancient period.
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Tags- Gudimallam, mystery, contradictions, lies, penis Lingam, Rudra, Youth, Gana figure, Pallava Dantivikrama, Vikrama choza, Inscriptions, Kannappa Nayanar, Kiratarjuniyam
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