Udupi Shri Krishna Temple on Terrorist Hit List
BY: STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Nov 2, UDUPI (SUN) — Following the devastating terrorist attack in Delhi a few of days ago, residents of Udupi are pressing the government to step up security preparations against a feared attack by terrorists in their city.
Sources at the intelligence bureau say that the terrorist group landed in the coastal district more than a month ago, and is chalking out strategies to derail security and administrative systems. Home Ministry is on alert and has urged the police department to be on the lookout, especially with regard to strangers who might have taken up residence in the Manipal, Udupi area over the last one-month period or so.
Confirmed sources in the Intelligence bureau sources have revealed that Shri Krishna Temple is on the terrorist's hit list, along with Kollur Mookambika Temple, education institutions in Manipal, government and private offices, software companies including Infosys, and religious places in Mangalore
Udupi is in Daksina Kannada (South Karnataka) in an area known as Parasurama-ksetra. Udupi is the main center of the Madhva Sampradaya, as Sri Madhvacarya established his Dvaita Vedanta philosophy and propagated it from this place. He also installed the Deity of Krsna that had previously been worshiped by Rukmini-devi in Dvaraka. He obtained this Deity when he saved a ship from sinking off the coast of Udupi and was presented a large piece of gopi-candana. When he washed the candana away in the Madhva-sarovara (the pond adjacent to the temple), a beautiful Deity of Bala-Krsna manifested. Sri Madhva initiated eight of his chief disciple into the sannyasa order and they established eight mathas around the Sri Krsna Temple.
