KN Krishna Bhat – the priest who restored Hampi’s Badavilinga Temple to its former glory after a sequence of Muslim invansions isn’t any extra

KN Krishna Bhat, the chief priest of Badavilinga temple in Hampi for practically 4 a long time, recognized famously for climbing the 3-metre Shivlingam for performing priestly duties, departed for the next astral abode on Sunday (April 25) at 5:30 AM.The passing of the priest invited tearful condolences messages on Twitter and different social media platforms the place netizens remembered him for his timeless service to the reason for the dharma.The priest of #Hampi’s well-known Badavilinga temple, Krishna Bhat left for his heavenly abode this morning. Since 1979, Krishna Bhat had been performing every day poojas to the 3-metre excessive monolithic #Shivalinga constructed through the Vijayanagara Empire interval. Om Shanthi. @MisplacedTemple7 pic.twitter.com/dfW67v2t2A— P C Mohan (@PCMohanMP) April 25, 2021Om Shanti. KN Krishna Bhat Ji.May his soul relaxation in peace.🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/0F9rcb3SdI— Sᴍᴏᴋʏ (@SmokersMafia) April 25, 2021ॐ शांति 🙏 Shree KN Krishna Bhat ji, the priest of Badavilinga temple at Hampi Karnataka, handed away in the present day at 5:30 AM on the age of 94.@MisplacedTemple7 @Somnath_Temple @TapasNiyama pic.twitter.com/74473M8CbC— Ritesh Mishra (@Ritzbond007) April 25, 2021 Bhat hailed from a village in Tirthahalli taluk of Shivamogga district. He had come to Hampi to work as a priest on the iconic Satyanarayana temple some 4 a long time earlier. Later, he was appointed because the priest of the Badavilinga temple by the Anegundi royal household.The devoted priest would begin his day at 5 am and would both stroll or take the assistance of locals to succeed in the temple by 6 am, returning dwelling solely within the night — after performing puja, posing for photographers and vacationers. Bhat carried out his duties, day by day all through the final 40 years with out lacking a single puja.The incontrovertible fact that there was no ladder, staircase or scaffolding close to the Shivalinga, which stays eternally waterlogged, meant that Bhat needed to step on the bottom of the Shivalinga and climb atop it. For an individual properly into his nineties, the duty was not wanting climbing Mount Everest however the devoted priest did it with aplomb.Shri Ok.N Krishna Bhat Ji aged 92 single handedly performs puja at 9+ ft tall Badavi Linga in Hampi, Karnataka, every day.He is doing so constantly because the final 4 a long time..!A dwelling instance of pure devotion. 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/H3SmbQDyhq— Vertigo_Warrior (@VertigoWarrior) July 27, 2020“There is no other way to worship the Shivalinga, without stepping upon it. You cannot say that this amounts to sacrilege. It is about commitment and devotion. You cannot even use a ladder or any support in the water-filled temple,” senior priest Shiv Bhat had advised the New Indian Express in an interview.Located on a financial institution of the Thurtha canal, which had been constructed by the Raya dynasty of Vijayanagara, the temple provides a novel background to the puja KN Krishna Bhat used to carry out day by day. Bahmani Sultans had partially broken the roof of the temple’s sanctum sanctorum throughout an invasion, which created a big gap within the ceiling.No puja was completed on the broken temple for not less than 500 years after the invasion by Muslim rulers till the pontiff of Kanchi mutt within the early Nineteen Eighties stated it needs to be worshipped because the idol was not harmed through the assault.Thus, the passing of KN Krishna Bhat marks the top of an period within the Temple’s historical past and certainly all the neighborhood would miss him for his service and dedication to Mahadev.