In the wake of usurpation of the Kumbakonan Math, comes the news that the Administrator, Uttaradhi Sri Vaishnava Math, Kanchipuram branch, has been done away with. The Math has its headquarters in Bihar. Srinivasachari (45) had been running the Math with the meager sum realized from agriculture and helped pilgrims from the north, who came to the Math for overnight stay.
Assailants entered the 150-year-old Math, behind the Kanchi Varadarajaswamy Temple, and attacked Shrinivasacharya on the head with a blunt weapon and then stabbed him while he was asleep on a cot close to the main door. He died on the spot.
The Math has nearly 15 acres of cultivable lands in Nathapet village and Thenampakkam. Income from those lands not only sustained the Math, but also helped it to feed the pilgrims visiting Kanchi temples. Shrinivasacharya who was a religious person often sought police help. He could have invited the wrath of the assailants in connection with the Math lands, the neighbors said.
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The Kumbakonan Math usurped by Jayalalithaa’s government
In his writ petition, Sri Saranga Desikendra Swamigal, the forcefully ousted Mathadhipathi of Kumbakonan Math, contended that the Govt. of Tamil Nadu (HR & CE officials) had usurped the Math’s administration. The action was illegal, void and violative of the fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 25 and 26 of the constitution, he said. When the writ petition from the Kumbakonan Math seeking to restrain the government of Tamil Nadu from interfering with the management of the Math by the present Mathadhipathi and consequently for a direction to remove the authorities concerned from the Math premises came up before the High Court today, the Tamil Nadu Government agreed to restore the possession of the Math to its present Madathipathi. The appointment of a ‘fit’ person was also cancelled.
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Tension over Kamakshi temple takeover
Tension prevailed at Maravar Chavadi in South gate in this city as the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR and CE) officials tried to takeover "Sri Kamakshi Ekambareswarar temple", belonging to the Viswakarma Community on wednesday. According to officials, the temple was to be brought under the control of the Koodal Alagar temple devasthanam. Police said tension mounted as people belonging to the community squatted inside the temple and refused to allow the HR and CE Officials inside. The officials said they had ordered for the takeover of the temple in 1991 itself. However, the temple officials had obtained a stay against it. Now the High court had vacated the stay, and hence they were taking control of the temple, they added.
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