Rites and Rituals in South Indian Temples

In this study he delves on the importance of Rituals as an instrument of purpose. Probes through set of different source materials, like Classical Tamil and Sanskrit texts on Agamas, personal contacts with the temple priests, a detailed study of Tamil Agamas, the importance of Rituals in Saiva and Vaishnava temples, Religious temple festivals, Temple festival calendars, Astrological texts and remedies, Mantrika texts, The daily rituals in the temples and its importance and practices are well presented by the detailed analysis of the source materials from Tamil and Sanskrit. Though there are differences in details of worship between Saiva temples and Vaishnava temples, the art of worship is essentially one and the same. A comparative analysis of different ritualistic rites for the Saiva and Vaishanava temples have been amply studied.