After the temples belonging to Muzrai Department conducted special prayers for good rains, it was the turn of more than 600 volunteers of social and charity organisations to invoke the rain god by preparing about 13,000 chapathis to feed 56,000 cattle on Sunday.
The Pinjrapole Society, a home for animals in the city, turned into a religious centre with the people participating in a special prayer by preparing chapathis to feed around 4,100 cattle at its two centres. The participants were also served prasadam like sweet pongal and other dishes.
Ashwini Poorna Sai Medical Trust and Vasavi Yuvajana Sangha, along with the Mahila Sangha, served vegetables, more than 500 kg of pulses and jaggery to cattle during Sankranthi and decided to celebrate Ekadashi during Shravan by feeding the cattle. They believed that feeding cattle with chapathis would enhance the nutrients and health of ‘Kamadhenu’ (cow) which is considered prosperous.
The trust members were overwhelmed by the participation of youth and women who arrived with spoons and pans to make chapathis. As many as 13,000 chapathis were prepared in three hours. Three sixty five kilos of wheat flour was pressed to make chapathis which were prepared by devotees on huge pans.
Five gas cylinders were exhausted by the cooking and devotees offered the chapathis to the cattle on trays after Pejawar Math’s Junior Pontiff Sri Vishwaprasannatheertha Swamiji and Aryavyshya Mahasabha president Ravishankar formally inaugurated the event by offering chapathis to a cow to encourage protection of cattle.
The trust secretary S N Prakash said that they had spent more than Rs 65,000 to organise the programme of feeding cattle. “We are happy with the turnout and the cooperation of Pinjrapole authorities,” he said.
He said that they had Narayana Seva feeding children and extending free medical camps in five villages Manarahalli, Kattehundi, Jattihundi, Madahalli and Bettahalli of Mysore taluk.
They also have plans to collect fodder from the public to feed the cattle at Pinjrapole and other drought-affected villages near Mysore in the coming days.
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