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
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