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I have never been inside those cellars. Our philosophy has always been not to look at such objects and get tempted. But of course I know what is inside them.
Uthradam Thirunal Marthanda Varma, in reply to the query whether the cellars in the temple contained gold statues studded with rubies and diamonds, saphhires, gold coins of the Napoleonic era and the East India Company, in "The riches belong to nobody, certainly not to our family". | ||