Budget

Lord Guruvayurappan, the famous deity in the Guruvayur shrine, has a personal kitty of Rs.400 crore/Rs. 4 billion, 65 elephants, gold, silver, a 5,000 year-old-history - and an abode that is considered an architectural marvel crafted in wood and stone.


"The temple earns Rs.3 crore every month by 'hundi' (donation) collections alone. Besides, rich devotees donate one-time grants and elephants to the temple. The shrine spends Rs.2 crore on the rituals and maintenance and to provide for the 1,000 people on its rolls. The temple has a corpus of Rs.400 crore,"