The Brahmin Dress Code
Updated: November 05, 2012 05:02 IST
Reacting acutely to the ascent trend of archakas donning avant-garde dresses, the State Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR and CE) Department has issued a ascetic agenda to them to stick to the acceptable dhoti and sika (tuft) as per the ‘agama’ tenets” of corresponding temples while assuming puja. .
It added wants priests who acting for the approved archakas to be “monitored closely” so that there is no allowance for complaint. The Board has absitively to abode complaint boxes in all temples. Salem-based amusing artisan A. Radhakrishnan had declared in a announcement to HR and CE Commissioner that abounding priests, abnormally “young substitutes”, were not cutting the “panchakatcham” (dhoti) and antic ‘sika’ as per temple agama rules while assuming pujas. Thiagaraja Sivam, a chief archaka absorbed to the age-old Sri Sugavaneshwarar Temple, here, denied the charges. He acicular out that abounding temples had no approved archaka back the seniors had retired.
“For example, aloof two of the 11 official archakas, including me in Sugavaneshwarar temple, are assuming bristles kala pujas. Others accept retired. These abandoned posts charge to be filled,” he insisted. They would never admittance anyone not befitting to agama credo to access the atelier sanctorum.
Muthukrishnan, addition archaka, said that ancestral priests abandoned were assuming pujas in abounding temples. Today’s adolescent priests knew agama back they were actuality accomplished in government-run Veda patasalas, such as the ones in Madurai and Pillayarpatti.
“A majority of the abreast Brahmin adolescence are not absorbed in demography up this job attributable to poor remuneration. Appointment of able archakas from acceptable families could affluence the burden,” he opined.
Joint Commissioner of HR and CE (Salem) Mangayarkarasi told The Hindu that agama rules were adhered to carefully in all HR and CE temples.
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