Soil from different places visited by Shankaracharya in his lifetime will be used in the restoration work, an official statement said today.
Officials of a Delhi-based NGO, who are on a yatra named "Kaladi to Kedar" to collect soil from different places visited by Adi Guru today called on Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi and requested him to use the soil in the restoration process. Kaladi is the birthplace of Shankaracharya.
The yatra began on February 8, 2014 from Kaladi in Karnataka (birth place of Adi Shankaracharya). Having covered 19,000 km, it will enter Dehradun on April 17. On that day, at 12 noon, the Governor will symbolically place soil in a 'kalash' (pot) and garland it.
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