MADURAI, INDIA, January 8, 2016 (Times of India): The Madurai Bench of the Madras high court on Thursday passed a common order dismissing two petitions challenged the kumbabishekam of the Rameswaram temple scheduled for January 20 on various grounds, including that the day fixed for the ceremony was inauspicious. At the same time it directed the temple authority to either repair the statue of Goddess Parvathavarthini, consort of Lord Ramanathar, which is damaged, or to make a golden armour (kavacham) so that the damage would stand rectified before the kumbabishekam.
Dismissing the petitions, the division bench of justices V. Ramasubramanian and N. Kirubakaran observed that none of the issues raised by the petitioners was capable of being examined on any judicially prescribed standards or parameters. “It is not possible for the court to decide whether the date fixed for the ceremony was good for the ruler or for the ruled, if not for the Almighty. For one who transcends time, space and all limitations within which the universe functions, which the theists believe, no date and time could be inauspicious. For mortals, what is auspicious for one is inauspicious for another and vice versa. Many times, no two astrologers, like lawyers and doctors, agree with each other,” said the bench.