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- | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO When a row broke out over lighting of the Karthigai Deepam at the Thirupparankundram hill in Madurai 30 years ago, four Sthaneeka Bhattars of the famed Subramaniaswami Temple had testified that the lamp had been lit at the Uchipillaiyar Temple since “time immemorial”.
- The Bhattars conveyed this in a communication written to the temple authorities against the backdrop of a raging row over the Hindu Munnani’s demand for lighting the deepam at a different place.
- The Hindu Munnani had first placed the demand in 1994 when it said its members too wanted to light the lamp at the Thirupparankundram hill for Karthigai Deepam.
- However, that year, Justice J.
- Kanagaraj of the Madras High Court had, by an interim order, directed that the lamp be lit at the usual place by the temple authorities alone.
