Shastavu Bhoothanatheshwara Temple Renovation festival: Due on May 12 to 20, 2010

10.05.10 Mangalore : The Re-installation of main Deity, Sri Shastavu Bhoothanatheshwara at the Badaga Yedapadavu-Mijar town on the outskirts of Mangalore city and the Brahmakalasha Abhisheka (drenching the Deity with holy waters) Mahotsava at the newly renovated temple scheduled in pompous celebration from May 12 to 20 this month, have brought a jubilation among the devotees all over the taluk.

Eminent priests led by B.K. Subrahmanya Thanthri and Sri Rama Thanthri will perform the reinstallation ceremony at 8-32 A.M. (Muhurtha) on May 16. The Brahma Kalash Abhisheka ceremony will take place on May 19 at 7.51A.M.

A “Gurukiran Musical Nite” is the highlight of the cultural programmes due at the temple on May 16, and on all other days by talented artistes, says a press note.

The festivities in a rural atmosphere and local enthusiasm start with a public prayer at 6 P.M on May 12 and run for a whole week thereafter.

State dignitaries like Home Minister, Dr. V.S. Acharya and educational celebrities such as Moodabidri Mohan Alva have agreed to take part in the programme on May 16 (reinstallation of the main Deity).

Sri Vidyaprasanna Thirtha of Subrahmanya Peeth will inaugurate religious ceremonies scheduled on May 19 at 6 P.M (Brahmakalasha bath). Sri Gurudevananda of Odiyur Math will make the benedictory speech after the religious ceremony on this occasion.

The temple has a unique pedestal of 3 or triple Sivalingam, inside Garbha-griha (sanctum sanctorum) in this 1500 years old temple on the West Coast.

M. Jeevandhar Hosamane and Mudabettu family member Vijaynath Shetty have taken pains to renovate this great shrine (earlier in a dilapidated/neglected condition), the press release added.