K'taka: Talacauvery temple collects more donations

Madikeri, Oct 25: The Hundi kept at Talacauvery earned more money than last year during the Teerthodhbava held on Tula Sankramana on Oct 17. Announcing this in a press note, temple manager Sampath Kumar said that Rs 3,51,907 was collected this year. Last year it was Rs 2,88,262, less by Rs 63,645, he said.

Apart from the cash, the Hundi also contained ten grams gold and fifty grams of silver.

The temple also received silver doors donated by Moodera Jagadish, living in America and gold necklace worth Rs 2.5 lakh, donated by Arun Cariappa, living in Dubai.

Rotary Misty Hills has donated a wheel chair to the temple to take crippled people to the temple from the gate, he said.

UNI