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There has been some research on the correlation of wealth and religion. Wealth is the status of being the beneficiary or proprietor of a large accumulation of capital and economic power. Religion is a social phenomenon in which groups of people agree on certain beliefs about a god or gods, the Divine, or other concepts that they consider sacred. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  srivaishnava.org 549px x 598px | 80.20kB [source page] Sri Nathamuni was born in 824 CE in the village called Viranarayana in Kattumannar Koil near Chidambaram in the month of Ani and star Anusham His father was Isvarabhatta and he had a son by name Isvaramuni Based on some accounts he lived during the late 9th or early 10th century Sri Nathamuni went on a long pilgrimage that took him to Divya Desams like Mathura Vrindhavan Bengal and Puri On his return to his home town he met with some SriVaishnavas from the Western part of the country who recited some 10 hymns composed by Nammazhvar where the 11th paasuram ended with orayirathhul ippathum which roughly means of the one thousand this ten poems then Natha muni asked those srivaishnavas that if they knew the rest of the thousand for which they answered no In the same poem he noted a kshetra named Kurugoor and a name Sadakopan which meant that the person Sadakopan from Kurugoor wrote the song And then he reached kurugoor This is where Nathamuni came in contact with… From Yahoo Image Search: "Wealth and religion"
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