Author: PNS
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: September 13, 2011
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/6080-deities-worshipped-in-submerged-kendrapada-temples.html
The current floods at the Mahanadi and Brahmani
river systems have not even spared gods and goddesses in the Kendrapada district.
While more than a hundred temples in almost
all the nine flood-affected blocks continue to remain submerged, more than
4.12 lakh marooned people still repose their unflinching faith in their presiding
deities hoping that the deities would surely improve the prevailing situation.
Despite their distress, the locals have made it a point that gods are not
neglected.
If one visits flood-hit villages like Shyamsundarpur,
Narayanpur, Singhagaon, Gobindapur, Tunupur, Pundilo, Tikhiri, Podana, Narsinghpur
and Raghabpur, he would come across the priests either ferrying in makeshift
rafts or wading through chest-deep waters to perform the daily rituals of
the deities of the villages.
The villagers believe that if the gods and
goddesses are not worshipped, their miseries would get further aggravated.