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Daijiworld Media Network—Udupi (RD/CN)
 
Udupi, Sep 24: A ‘Chandika Yaga’ and free food offering to all devotees was held at the Hosa Marigudi Temple, Kaup, here on Tuesday September 22 as part of the ‘Navaratri Utsav’.
 
Chief priest Vedamurti Korangrapady Raghavendra Tantri and Vedamurti Srinivas Tantri Kalya performed the Vedic rituals on the occasion, witnessed by a large number of devotees.

 
The idol of temple deity Mariamma was decorated with flowers on the occasion.  Thousands of devotees participated in the annual auction of saris.  Long queues of devotees were seen winding beside the National Highway 17, to offer prayers to the deity.
 
Kaup MLA Lalaji R Mendon, former minister Vasant V Salian, Hosamarigudi temple managing trustee Ratnakar Shetty Nadikere, Kaup Sri Janardhana Temple managing trustee M Jayaram Hegde, Kaup Billava Sangh president Shekar Salian, Kaup Janardhana Temple renovation committee president Shashidar Shetty Yermal, Sri Janardhana Temple building committee president K Vasudev Shetty, Kaup Dandateerta group of education institutions correspondent Dr Prabhakar Shetty, KMF former president Divakar Shetty Kotwalaguttu, Kaup Ganeshotsav committee president Ramesh Mendon, Billavar Sangh secretary Madhav R Palan, JD (S) district president Deviprasad Shetty, Tulu Koota president Balakrishna Shetty, social worker Kaup Leeladhar Shetty, Sakhendra Suvarna, Gangadhar Suvarna, Radharamana Shastry, TP members Jagdish Acharya, Ramesh Hegde, Arun Shetty, temple managing committee members Shekar Salian, Uday Hegde, Sudhama Shetty, Surendra Shetty, Savitri M Kotian, Vijayalaxmi R Shetty, Sundar, as well as the office-bearers of various social welfare and women clubs of Kaup were present on the occasion.