Resumo de Diamond Is Seeker

Diamond is seeker?s curse

A black
diamond,supposedly taken from an idol in ta temple near
Pondicherry,which was on display recently at the Natural
history Museum at London, has re-kindled interest in the
history of ancient temples in this part of the country. A
professor in Pndicherry has, with out success, attempted to
trace the history of the diamond. Called
a ?cursed?stone,legend has it that a monk removed the
original 195-carat black diamond from an idol in a temple
near Pondicherry,probably in the 12th century,inviting the
wrath of God. Subsecquently, the legend goes, a curse fell
on all those who possessed the diamond. It is said that
the diamond was bought by two Russian princess who
committed suicide. It was then called as the Orlov diamond
after the Russian prince who had bought it. Later, as the
story goes, the diamond went into the hands of a diamond
went into the hands of a diamond merchant who committed
suicide from the top floor of a building in New York. The
search for the temple where the deity was once adorned by
the diamond is not easy as there are many ancient temples
around pondicherry, including the thirumoolesthanam temple
in Bahour,Chandramouleeswarar temple I
thiruvakarai,Veeranarayana Azhwar Temple,
Thirubhubanai,Kundakuzhi temple in
Madagadipet,Panchanatheesawara Temple in Thiruarachi and
shiva temple in Koliyanur. The researchers have come
across an almost 800-year-old mahakaleeswarar temple in
Irumbaiin Villupuram district,which they feelmay be the
temple they are looking for as it is the only which also
tells a tale of a curse similar to the one associated with
the diamond. Legend has it that sage Kazhuveli who lived
in the 12thcentury was enraged when villagers laughed at
him for coming to the rescue of a devadasi who fell while
dancing in this temple and cursed them. As a resulr, the
lingam of lord Shiva(which could hae been adorned by the
diamond)in the temple blew up into pieces but later was
reassembled after the king and illagers pleaded with the
sage to take back his curse. A team led byepigraphist
Dr.Vijay Venugopal,Former history professor of Madurai
Kamaraj Univiersity,visited the temple last week to gather
information about the temple and establish a link,if any,
with the cursed balck diamond. The team photographed
inscriptions on the walls of the temple and collected other
vital information available to make a detailed study about
the history of the temple with specialreference to the
diamond.

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