{"id":10630,"date":"2011-11-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/13\/no-tax-or-loot-wealth-in-padmanabha-temple-cellars-says-scholar\/"},"modified":"2011-11-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T12:00:00","slug":"no-tax-or-loot-wealth-in-padmanabha-temple-cellars-says-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/13\/no-tax-or-loot-wealth-in-padmanabha-temple-cellars-says-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"No Tax or Loot Wealth In Padmanabha Temple Cellars, Says Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianage.com\/india\/no-tax-or-loot-wealth-padmanabha-temple-cellars-claims-book-666\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, November 2, 2011 (by K. Venugopal): The wealth found in the cellars of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple was not accumulated through oppressive taxes or through looting during wars, claims a new book released this week.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, as much as 95 per cent of the wealth comprised of regular donations made by various branches of the Travancore royal family, according to &#8216;Charithram Kuricha Sree Padmanabha Swamy Kshethram,&#8217; written by noted historians M.G. Sasibhooshan and Dr. R.P. Raja.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sasibhooshan termed as utterly false the contention that the wealth consisted of funds garnered through harsh taxes such as &#8216;Mulakkaram&#8217; (breast tax). &#8220;This allegation is being made on the basis of a casual reference by historian Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, who did not present any evidence to prove it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The records show that the tax revenue went to the state coffers and not to the temple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sasibhooshan added that each contribution made to the temple was meticulously entered in the Mathilakom records, including contributions of Christians and Muslims. &#8220;Not a single paisa has come in through taxes or through wars and conquests,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, November 2, 2011 (by K. Venugopal): The wealth found in the cellars of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}