KUKKE SUBRAMANYA: Chairman of the International Cricket Council and former chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCC) N Srinivasan on Monday visited Kukke Subramanya temple and performed a series of pujas at a private house near the temple.
This is his third visit to the temple in the last 10 years, temple officials claimed.
Though the temple authorities had made all arrangements for his puja, the media was kept out.
In his single line byte to the waiting reporters Srinivasan said: “I am a devotee of this temple since a long time and this was a personal visit.”
Srinivasan performed Sarpasamskara, Ashlesha Bali, Naga Pratishte and Go puja.
The ICC Chairman himself performed all the pujas under the guidance of senior priest of the temple Ramakrishna Bhat.
Srinivas later had a darshan of lord Subramanya, the presiding deity of the temple town, and offered mahapuja.
He also visited the Aadi Subramanya temple and sought blessings.
His wife and a few relatives accompanied him.
Many top cricketers, including master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, former India captain Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Javagal Srinath, Manish Pandey, Robin Uthappa and Venkatesh Prasad have visited the temple and offered various sevas.
According to the vaidik experts at the temple, the pujas offered by the ICC chief were generally performed for ridding a devotee of the Naga Dosha — a kind of divine obstacle in the path of success of an individual.
Sources in the temple told Express that the family circles of Srinivasan had confessed that there were issues which had been solved and some more were remaining in ICC chief’s life, so the pujas were partly thanks giving and partly for a solution to the few remaining problems.
