Ritual Enactment in Temple Tradition: Cheluvanarayana Svami Temple Melukote

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The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) is an Autonomous Trust set up by the Government of India under Ministry of Culture. IGNCA is visualized as a centre encompassing the study and experience of all the arts – each form with its own integrity, yet within a dimension of mutual interdependence, interrelated with nature, social structure and cosmology.

The Temple of India, particularly of South India and more specifically of Karnataka, is a living to the efficacy of the sacred world of consecrated images: they are integral to the conception of enlivened image. The ancient modes of worship authenticated by the agamas have continued to this day, and the practicing priests provide material on these for conducting holistic studies to get a unifying vision. These resources are termed today as ‘Living Traditions’ or Living Human Treasures’, which come under the category of Intangible Human Heritage. They have relevance to the category of socio-psycho and socio-cultural elements of human values experienced through the sense both strong and fragile, as they rely on ‘community to pass it on’. It has symbolic relevance, so it is intangible symbolism inlaid.

The project on Ritual Enactment at the shrine of Cheluvanarayana svami Melukote’ is conceived keeping in mind the vision of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Art, IGNCA, to documents the temple traditions and bring them into the fold of scholastic and academic framework. Melukote, the alaya ashrita grama is endowed with the tangible and intangible cultural heritage has the charismatic installed Melukote as temple town received its due patronage from Hoysalas continued in Vijayanagar and Wodeyar times. This publication pertains to the year- long ritual tradition laid down by Sri Ramanujacharya almost 900 years ago. With accompanying text supported by beautiful photographs, meaningful illustrations authenticated the value of research and documentation of the the Ritual Enactment performed on specific days and months at this temple town. This seriously researched and beautifully designed volume will be a valuable reference work to whom it matters and an interesting to devotees, seekers and common readers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Choodamani Nandagopal

Arts and Crafts of Indus Civilization (Provincial Art) is the ninth book by Prof. Choodamani Nandagopal, a reputed Art Historian and Ph.D. in History and Archaeology from the Mysore University. Her research projects have a special approach both from the historical and aesthetic point of view. Besides other books, she has to her credit 0 published research papers. She was the first scholar to receive U.K. Visiting Nehru Fellowship in 1992 (in coordination with Victoria and Albert Museum, London) for her research on Colonial Paintings, and UNESCO Fellowship for Silk Road Studies in 1994. She is actively involved in various capacities with several International and National research institutes, universities, museums and art galleries. She is an academician of high repute and served earlier as Head of Citrakala Institute of Advanced Studies and guided doctoral students. At present, she is serving in Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Southern Regional Centre, Bangalore.