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Court adjourns temple nama row

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court has adjourned further hearing of a petition by a member of the Tengalai sect of Sri Vaishnavas who had challenged the action of the Muzrai Department in permitting the famous Yoganarasimha diety in the Yoganarasimha Temple at Melkote to be anointed with a nama belonging to the Vadagalai sect.

The petitioner, Anandalawan, said that on February 26, 2000, the Civil Judge (Junior Division), Srirangapatna, had passed a judgment saying that the Yoganarasimhaswamy temple at Melkote would follow the Tengalai tradition of worship and that the insertion of Vadagalai nama in the temple and Gopura, including a Silver Vadagalai Nama on the deity, was illegal.

He said the Srirangapatna court had also given permanent injunction restraining the State from introducing the Vadagalai names in the temple or the Gopura. An appeal against this order also came to be dismissed.

On January 4, 2008, he said, some of the ornaments in the temple, including the ornamental nama, were stolen.

The officials of the Muzrai Department (under whose management the temple comes) and those in-charge of the puja, permitted a tilaka to be placed on the forehead of the deity.

However, on January 30, 2008, the Muzrai Department without hearing the Tengalai devotees and others, permitted an ornamental Vadagalai ornamental Nama to be placed on the deity.

During the last hearing, a Vadagalai devotee had filed an interlocutary application (IA) to implead himself in the case.

When the matter came up today, the Tengalai devotee sought time to file his objections to the vacating stay application filed by a devotee of the rival sect.

Justice N.K. Patil adjourned further hearing of the case.

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