On Monday hundreds attended a solemn funeral, which they set up for a “vegetarian” space, which many residents of the state of Kerala, in the extreme southwest of India, consider “sacred” during its 80 years of life. and for the most part, Babiya was a vegetarian in a lake near a Sri Ananthapadmanabha Swamy Hindu temple in the south of the state.
And the agencies quoted the temple secretary, Ramachandran Bhat, that some people found her floating on the lifeless lake at dawn yesterday, “after she stopped eating for a number of days,” explaining in what Al-Arabiya.net read in today’s issue of the British newspaper “The Times” that the food was mostly “sacred portions” of rice, which the temple priests used to serve it, but hinted not to support it. ” this statement, because there were fish in the lake, “he said.
As for the temple, the secretary stated that its history dates back to 3000 years ago, and is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu who was protected for centuries by a “sacred” crocodile always alone, and that the last crocodile who preceded “Bapia” to protect the temple “was shot dead by the British army in 1940, and after it appeared that Papia is in the lake. We cannot say where it came from, but the lake is connected to the caves below of it “, as he said put it.
They considered the Papia sacred because it never attacked any other animal or human, including children brought to the lake shore to “touch it and receive its blessings.” A bed of coconut leaves, later buried in the temple complex, in a sad scene, her echo reached Shobha Karandlaje, minister of agriculture and welfare of farmers.
