Chaturveda
Navaneetha Santhana
Krishnan Temple
is a unique temple located at Ariyallur near Manali in Northern Part of Chennai
in Tamil Nadu. The temple is dedicated to Sri Krishna. Apart from the murti of
Navaneetha Santhana Krishna – there are murtis of four cows symbolically
representing the four Vedas. The temple also has a murti of Garuda, the vehicle
of Bhagvan Srihari Vishnu.
Deccan Chronicle reports
The temple has been planned to have Ghosala (shelter for
cows) at the temple and the devotees would be encouraged to personally feed
them.
The cows, portraying the four Vedas, and also the idol of
Santhana Krishnan were sculpted by Sthapathi Shankernarayanan.
“Since the Vedic times importance has been attached to
cows…all the gods are believed to reside in the body of Kamadhenu - the generic
cow. Her four legs are the scriptural Vedas,” says Subramanian.
Apart from patronising Ghosala, steps would be
taken to conduct Gho pujas, he said and added that this was for the first time
that such a temple dedicated to Lord Krishna with four cows representing
the Vedas is being built.
