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the supreme Master of all religions, who raised a Victory Pillar at Kanchipuram to commemorate his cultural conquest of India, was known as a Pracchanna Bauddha or a Buddhist in disguise. Sankara has described the Buddha as the Emperor of the Yogis in this Kali age. Besides, in the days of Varagunan Buddhism was the preponderating religion of the people in Kerala but the Buddha image was also worshipped by the Hindus. There is evidence to prove on the basis of the scriptural references that because the Buddha was an incarnation of Mahavisnu it was justifiable for the Pantalan kings to keep the Buddha image for the worship of the Hindus.
Sabarimalai is a living monument of religious and cultural unification in Ayyappan, a great symbol of human brotherhood indispensable to a Democratic Secular Republic like India for promoting unity and peace among the people.
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