Made Snana Ritual

Pejawar Mutt pontiff Vishweshwa Teertha Swami today said he never justified the 'inhuman practice' of the Made Snana ritual and urged Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda to bring in a law against it. Made Snana is an age-old ritual at Kukke Subramanya temple in Dakshina Kannada, where people with skin and other diseases roll on banana leaves on lef...

The BJP government in Karnataka is mulling a ban on "made snana", an annual religious ritual in which people roll on left-over food consumed by Brahmins to fulfil vow at a famous temple in the state.

Pejawar Mutt pontiff Vishweshwa Teertha Swami today said he never justified the 'inhuman practice' of the Made Snana ritual and urged Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda to bring in a law against it. Made Snana is an age-old ritual at Kukke Subramanya temple in Dakshina Kannada, where people with skin and other diseases roll on banana leaves on lef...

The BJP government in Karnataka is mulling a ban on "made snana", an annual religious ritual in which people roll on left-over food consumed by Brahmins to fulfil vow at a famous temple in the state.