![]() This is the visible, physical aspect of this deity loss in the people’s collective cultural consciousness. The Government-appointed administrative heads of these temples are not only ignorant of even something as basic as the temple's kshetra or sthala puranas – oral and even written history – but dismiss it with a contempt that has to be seen to be believed. This rampant degradation continues unchecked. To restate the obvious, most ancient and medieval era temples in Tamil Nadu today have become dens of corruption, squalor, and pettiness at all levels. More pointedly, the cultural-heritage-loss that accompanied this devata loss has in many cases become irreversible. One of the greatest losses of the so-called Dravidian discourse in Tamil Nadu is the loss of a number of Hindu devatas or deities in the civilizational consciousness of the Tamils.
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