Priests perform 'Sadbuddhi' Yagna for Aishwarya

Ajmer, Dec 31: Blame it on the feud between the priests and themanagement of the Brahma temple in Pushkar, Bollywood star AishwaryaRai's visit to the famous temple attracted one controversy afteranother. The priests performed a ''Sadbuddhi'' yagna and washed the temple with ''Gangajal'' to purify the premises after her visit.

Priests of the only temple dedicated to Brahma in the world had onThursday alleged that one of the three security guards who accompaniedher inside was ''drunk''.

Rai, however, had rejected the allegations, saying there was notruth to them. As the doe-eyed actress was leaving, her securitymenalso got into a small scuffle with journalists. Earlier, she had paidobeisance at the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah here.

The priests were also ''disappointed'' with the former Miss Worldby the way she performed puja at the Brahma temple, ''ignoring'' to paya visit to the sacred ''Pushkar Sarovar''.

The discord between the temple management and the presidingpriests came to the fore when almost an year ago it was alleged thatthe Mahant (chief priest) of the temple had a affair with a womenliving on the temple premises and liquor bottles were allegedlyrecovered from the temple.

The two parties were again involved in a face-off over the issue of keeping the temple open to the public during Solar eclipse.

The ''purification'' of the temple was done by Priest Associationpresident Laddoo Ram Sharma among others yesterday. They also performeda ''Sadbuddhi Yagna'' for her.

Mr Sharma said unless the Bollywood star tenders an apology theirprotest will continue and a meeting of the association will be calledsoon to discuss the future course of action.

UNI