Who is the royal family, that will manage Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple ?

Travancore: After Supreme Court upholds right of the Travancore royal family to manage the deity’s property at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple.

Many people might be searching or reading about this family, the Travancore royal family was the ruling of the kingdom of Travancore. The family descends from ancient kings. According to myths, the founding members of the Travancore royal family said to have come to Kerala from the bank of Narmada River.

Also, there is another claim that Parashurama himself crowned the first official ruler but there is no historical evidence of it. By the early 19th century the kingdom became a princely state under the British.

In 1750 Maharajah Sree Anizham Thirunal dedicated the kingdom of Travancore to his family deity Sri Padmanabhaswamy. The king of Travancore, taking the title of ‘Sree Padmanabhadasa’ ruled the kingdom as the servant of that deity.

The temple which was earlier under the control of a trust headed by the ex-royals family until April 2014 when the top court by way of a crucial interim order handed over its management to a four member administrative committee headed by a district judge.