Treasure Of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple

• Padmanabhaswamy temple audit not an easy task, will do it sincerely: Vinod Rai

  Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai today said he is "honoured" to be chosen by the Supreme Court to supervise the special audit of the property of Kerala's famous Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple and added that he would carry out the "difficult" task sincerely.

• Supreme Court panel hints at mismanagement of wealth in Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple

  There are "serious lapses" in management of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple and the invaluable wealth its underground vaults contain, according to a report submitted in Supreme Court by the amicus curiae that favoured a direction for scientific audit of the treasure.

• Temple treasure: Experts' panel resumes work

  The Supreme Court appointed Experts Committee for scientifically documenting priceless treasures of the famous Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram has resumed its work by opening another underground vault.

• Expert panel begins evaluating treasure found in Padmanabhaswamy temple

  The experts' committee constituted by the Supreme Court for inventorying and scientifically documenting the priceless treasures found in the vaults of the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple here commenced its work today.

• Inventorying of Padmanabhaswamy Temple treasure underway

  The experts' committee constituted by the Supreme Court for inventorying and scientifically documenting the priceless treasures found in the vaults of the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram commenced its work today.

• How much is the Kerala temple treasure really worth

  A committee appointed by the Supreme Court of India will return to the vaults of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram on the southern tip of India in the second week of February. Their task: try to put a value on what is believed to be the largest temple treasure in the world.

• Temple treasure: Documentation panel to follow world standards

  The Supreme Court appointed Committee on scientific documentation of treasures locked up in the vaults of famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here will be following standards set up by the International Council of Museum in carrying out the task entrusted to it.

• How Kerala temple treasure is being recorded

  The process of scientific documentation of the treasure at Kerala's Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple will begin on November 9. This was decided today at a meeting of the expert panel appointed by the Supreme Court.

• Kerala temple: Achuthanandan takes royal family to court

  The controversy over the priceless treasure in Kerala's Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple refuses to die down. Veteran Marxist leader and former Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has said that he will approach the Supreme Court against the custodians of the temple-- the Travancore Royal Family, for allegedly smuggling its wealth. The Marxist leade...

• Astrologers caution against opening vault of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple

  The priceless treasure in Kerala's Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple should not be moved out of the shrine. That is what a group of astrologers have concluded after conducting a four-day ritual called devaprasnam to find out the "will of the deity."

• Temple treasures belong to royal family: Sankaracharya

  The huge treasures found in Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram were the "exclusive property" of Travancore royal family that dedicated their kingdom to the presiding deity of the temple, Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi said today.  "For long the erstwhile royal family was the custodian of the temple and they dedicted th...