VADAKKUNATHAN SHIVA TEMPLE AT THRISSUR, KERALA

On Monday 8th March 2010 I went to Thrissur to hear to the lecture of Tummala R. Rao of Georgia Tech University on Packaging challenges for 3-D ICs and SOP, a lecture that Profesor is delivering at the Foundation celebrations of C-MET Thrissur.  This is a rare and valuable lecture and the contents are very useful in relation o our MEMS packaging as well.  I met him after the lecture for a short while.  In the afternoon at 3 PM we reached Thrissur C-MET lab. and I have visited the place for 3 Hrs. Then we started back to Cochin.  On the way, we have seen, SREE VADAKKUNATHAN TEMPLE. The construction and outer strucutre of the temples in Kerala are special in its own way.  Unlike, the huge stone carved structures and Gali Gopurams in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamilnadu areas, in  Kerala the temples are construcuted with Buglow type strucutres.  But, worshippers remove the shirt and banian as well and hang the shirt to the right hand shoulder.  While worshipping Pradakshina around the temple is allowed  only if the the Ganga carrying the Abhisheka Jalam from the diety to the outside is not on the way.  If it is on the way of Pradakshina cicle, one has to stopfull round but, to go back in the reverse direction.  For me it was confusing for a while.  This happened in the Cochin Shiva temple.