COONOOR, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, April 25, 2009: A trishula 40 feet tall, believed to be the first of its kind in South India, is being installed at the Brahmeshwar Mandir now under construction at the Nilgiri foothills on the banks of Kallar River. Replicating the trishula that stands in Viswanath Mandir at Uttarkasi in the Himalayas, the brass face, six feet tall and four feet wide, is being erected at the top of a 34-foot concrete pole.
The temple itself, near Kallar Ashram on the Coonoor- Mettupalayam highway, is being constructed under the guidance of Mathaji Gurupriyanandaji, head of the 30-year-old Sri Sarada Brahma Vidya Kendra in Coonoor.