Udupi, Nov 27: As many as 10 devotees including seven women and three men performed Ede Snana' an alternative ritual to Made Snana' at Sri Muchlukodu Subrahmanya Temple here on Thursday.
It is for the second successive year that the “Ede Snana” was held at this temple, which comes under the Pejawar Mutt.
Under “Made Snana,” the devotees rolled over the plantain leaves containing leftovers of meals partaken by Brahmins. This was opposed by many progressive organisations and thinkers. But under “Ede Snana,” devotees roll over the “prasada” or “food offered to the deity” which were kept on plantain leaves.
Soon after the prayers, as many as 10 persons took their bath near the well located close to the sanctum sanctorum of the Sri Muchlukodu Subrahmanya Temple. They then rolled over the “prasada”.
Meanwhile, Pejawar Mutt chief pontiff Vishwesha Tirtha Swami, who had conceptualised “Ede Snana,” said that it was not necessary to have a practice where devotees roll over the plantain leaves containing leftovers of meals of Brahmins.
In “Ede Snana,” devotees roll over the “prasada” offered to the deity. The “prasada” is holy. Hence there will be no problem with “Ede Snana.” But with “Made Snana,” there will always be arguments and controversy, he said.
“When I take over as the Paryaya Swami of Sri Krishna Math Temple in 2016, I will allow “Made Snana” there during my Paryaya period of two years,” the seer said.
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