Ancient idols: Golden eggs for thieves

We Indians, especially South Indians knows that the temples and the statues of the deities are an integral part of our tradition. 

Our ancient kings who've built many temples also with their huge interest in arts and architecture, also provided Panchaloha Idols of the respective deities in the respective temples. The Panchaloha Idols (made up of 5 metals namely gold, silver, copper, zinc and iron), "Pancha" means 'five (5)' and "loha" means 'metals', are the major evidences of our ancient history and also an important part of idol worshipping. 

Because of some thieves or you can call them morons, they made each and every people around Southern parts of India to turn back and see how many idols have left their own temples and kept as just a idol in foreign museums.

There are many articles and news flashing now-a-days and most of the idol theft are happening with the help of the temple's priest and TNHRCE officials. Because without their knowledge nothing can happen this huge. Other than the temple's priest and TNHRCE officials, business men who have their influence with various officials, help these kind of loot to take place. In the name of art dealers and also running small museums within the country helps these kind of theft to happen,

Why ancient idols? 

More than us (Indians), Foreigners clearly understood that there's something beyond science and Indian culture, tradition, temples and practices are the pioneer of this great practices. This drives those foreigners but they are not the main players of this theft. They just accepts whatever comes from those fake art dealers and idol smugglers through different mediums. Though every museums have their own way of examining the origin of a specific idol, with the help of a whole greedy idol theft gang it becomes so easy to prepare the legal documents necessary for exporting those idols. 

These greedy idol smugglers, being the main players gets benefited by crores and crores of money from foreign buyers. Foreign buyers does research and understands the value of the precious idols from our own country. It's a truth that the centuries old Panchaloha statues emits powerful positive vibrations whereas the new ones are not this much effective. So they prefer centuries old idols from our country. These positive vibrations somehow helps to keep their country more strong and positive in terms of economy, strong bonding with other countries and also helps to improve the standards of life of the people there. Cosmic rays has such kind of characteristics.

Recent Incidents

One can easily understand why these things are happening if they are following news.

It all came into limelight after recovering the 1000 years old Panchaloha statues of The great Raja Raja Chozha and his wife Loka Mahadevi statues from a private museum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

After that a huge idol hunting happened in social activist and businessman Ranveer Shah's house at Chennai and the police team were shocked to see his house with ancient statues being used as a decoration. His house resembled like a mini museum. After this the team also searched his bungalows’ that Ranveer Shah owns in various places like Thiruvaiyaru, Ooty, and Thiruvarur where he bought many antique palaces and safeguarding the antiquity of those palaces.

They've retrieved around 89 statues and 12 temple pillars from Ranveer Shah's house. A very recent one is the police team recovered another 89 statues from Ranveer Shah's Melmaruvathur farm house.

Following that IG Pon Mankikkavel's team searched and analyzed Thanjavur Brihadeeshwarar temple for more than 3 hours and found out many ancient idols are missing from the temples. Somebody also filed a petition stating that the Chozha's and his Queen's statue which was recovered from Ahmedabad is not the same as the real one.

Mr. Pon Manikkavel, IG of Police and his team, special wing - Idol theft, doing splendid job of recovering very important idols from not only different parts of India but also from different countries like UK and USA.

After that Mr. Pon Manikkavel's team did searched various temples and also some VIP's bungalows' etc. Along with the police some people individually putting effort to find our divine idols back to their respective places. One of famous individual who wholeheartedly putting his effort and has been a very important person behind the arrest of international drug dealer Shubhash Kapoor is Mr. Vijay Kumar who wrote a book called "The idol thief",  author of the blog poetryinsone.com, his efforts is an inspiration who are very much interested in contributing for such honorable works.

I could've added many news clipping which I'd gone through these days, but there are much more behind this. To understand this whole concept of idols smuggling, I'm at a beginner level. Our history has been great always. Now evidences supporting our great history is traded for money which is not worth it. Our divine ancient idols worth more than anything.

Ending this post here, but not the whole case. A lot more will be updated.

Yours East Gaterr