Identity area
Reference code
GB 891 CF-CF/1-CF/1/3
Title
Lists relating to the Minakshi-Sundareshwara Temple
Date(s)
- 1976-2002 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
(1949-)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This file contains lists relating to the administration and worship of the Minakshi-Sundareshwara temple, with further typed notes on the lists supplied by Christopher Fuller. These include:
- printout of information concerning the daily puja (worship) schedule and the price list for private worship and offerings, from the temple's website, dated 17 April 2002. In English.
- a handwritten copy of the price list for private worship and offerings displayed on a noticeboard above the ticket office inside the temple in 1976-77, dated 20 August 1976, in Tamil with English translation.
- a handwritten list of 41 endowments (kattalai) showing which of them provided materials for each period (kala) of the daily worship (puja), in Tamil with a transliteration.
- another typed list of 79 endowments issued by the temple administration in 1994, which only partly corresponds with the previous one. In Tamil with a transliteration.
- a typed list of temple festivals, issued by the temple administration in 1994. In Tamil.