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Padmanabhaswami is the Hindu temple of Vishnu, located in the Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram. This is one of one hundred and eight divya deshas – the most sacred abode of Vishnu. Temple is a thirty-meter seven-row gate tower, covered with skillful carvings. Inside you can find a huge corridor with three hundred and twenty-four embossed pillars and a twenty-five-meter golden pole topped with a flag. Walls the buildings are covered with numerous murals depicting various stories from the beliefs of the followers of Hinduism.
The deity within is Padmanabhaswami. – the form of Vishnu in a state of mystical sleep. Figure, having a length of five and a half meters, consists of ten thousand black stones, it is also covered with gold and jewelry.
The temple was built in the years 1731-1750 by King Marthanda Varma.
Fabulous wealth
In the summer of 2011, Padmanabhaswami found perhaps the richest in human history is a treasure that has become a real world sensation. Prior to this, the largest treasure was considered treasures discovered on Robinson Crusoe Island. Their estimated cost was about ten billion dollars. Padmanabhaswami hid in his underground vaults a whole trillion rupees, which was estimated at about twenty billion dollars in gold equivalent. Where are they from come from?
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In ancient times, the territory on which the Hindu stands today the temple, for many centuries was used as a trade route. Indian and foreign merchants who came here to purchase spices, cloths and other goods, brought gifts to the Vishnu temple – not so much for divine blessing as for propitiation of the then rulers of the earth. All donations in the form of gold and gems took shape in a religious building. Especially European merchants were generous – Padmanabhaswami found many old European coins and jewelry, as well as gold of the Aztecs and Incas, melted into bullion.
When gold really rowed with shovels
Indian archaeologists descending into the dungeons of the temple were absolutely shocked when they found there chests with a ton of gold coins, a ton of gold items and bullions, as well as numerous bags with rubies, emeralds, pearls and diamonds. Here also skillful gold chains and numerous statues from precious metals. According to experts, they don’t even suspected that at least one percent of such wealth.
The government of Kerala has certainly done everything for ensure maximum treasure safety. In order to protect the treasure here at one time attracted almost all the military and state police.
Aristocracy against
It is worth noting that before in one of the underground rooms Padmanabhaswami discovered these wealth, many Indian authorities years have sued local aristocrats who are direct descendants of the Rajas who once owned the temple. Government insisted that the building belonged to the state, and the treasures hidden in it are also state property. The aristocracy appealed to other laws, according to which Padmanabhaswami belongs precisely to his descendants previous owners.
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The officials still managed to print the dungeon, having received appropriate court authorization. The historical monument was transferred under the control of the local government. Nonetheless, eighty-nine-year-old Uratradan Tirunaal Martanda Varma, a descendant of Raja Travankor, began to appeal the decision Supreme Court. According to the aristocrat, when India received independence, new laws arose according to which Indians have the full right to dispose of property belonging to them ancestors, regardless of whether this property historical monument or not. The appeal was ultimately rejected.
Mystery of the last door
However, the restless aristocrat continues to defend his rights. He put up with the fact that the government took possession the riches described above, however, by all means insists so that the last of the five caches where no one has looked many centuries, no one has opened. It is believed that there is hidden most valuable part of wealth, which can cost several tens billion dollars. The room is sealed with a special sign of a snake, guaranteeing the inviolability of the premises.
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Curse treasure
As in the case with other treasures, the legend of the curse of the treasures of Padmanabhaswami. It is noteworthy that these beliefs became one of the reasons why the authorities still have not decided open the last room. Hacking initiators died at mysterious circumstances some time after receiving judicial permission. In addition, the boss suddenly died jewelery police. Young and healthy the man was found dead in his bed, with no trace no poisoning or violence was found.
At the same time, it’s supposedly not the jewels themselves that were cursed, but those people who decide to take possession of them for their own enrichment. It is believed that treasures can be recovered from the temple and used only if India is threatened danger, and residents of the region will need a lot of money for the military costs.
According to one of their local myths, at the end of the nineteenth century the British, who felt like full masters of India, invaded Padmanabhaswami and, ignoring all warnings priests and rajas, decided to plunder the forbidden treasury. However, as soon as the British armed with torches and firearms were below, some of them ran out with terrible screams back. According to them, in the darkness of the dungeon were thousands snakes that instantly attacked strangers. When the rest the colonists went down then found their corpses compatriots bitten by snakes from head to toe. So countless the treasures of Padmanabhaswami temple and remained untouched until now since
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