Re: BIG TEMPLE

From the Bhakti List Archives

• June 9, 1997


> Perhpas this is the wrong place to ask this, but does anyone have any details
> on the damage caused to the Big Temple (Brihadeeshwarar Koil) in Tanjore, 
> during yesterday's fire?

The online edition of The Hindu says that 38 people lost their lives,
including a few small children. Many more have been injured, and are in
local hospitals. The temple itself seems to have escaped damage, but the
pandal erected for the kumbhabhishekam caught fire, and was ruined. It
seems that proper exits had not been provided. 

Vidyasankar