Uttarakhand: Priests divided over gold plating of Kedarnath walls

The plating is being done after a devotee volunteered to offer gold

A section of priests in Kedarnath have opposed gold plating of the walls inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Himalayan temple saying it amounts to tampering with its centuries-old traditions.

Teerth purohits (pilgrimage priests) opposing the gold plating are incensed that the use of big drilling machines in the process are damaging the temple's walls.

The gold plating of the temple's walls is being done after a Shiva devotee from Maharashtra volunteered to make an offering of gold for the purpose and his proposal was accepted by the Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC) with permission from the state government.

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"We cannot tolerate this tampering with the centuries-old traditions of the temple," a pilgrimage priest named Santosh Trivedi said in Kedarnath. However, some priests are in favour of the renovation work. Senior priest Shrinivas Posti said that the temple is a major centre of Sanatan faith and gold plating of its walls is in keeping with the Hindu beliefs and traditions.

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