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Srikantadatta Wodeyar laid to rest
Srikantadatta Wodeyar Laid To Rest. Thousands of people lined the Mysore-Nanjungud road to have a last glimpse of the last prince of the Wodeyar dynasty.
Mysore: The body of the 60 year old prince Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar who died on Tuesday following a massive cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Bangalore,about 140 km from here got merged with the five elements as his mortal remains were cremated with state honours.
As prince had no offspring, his first nephew Chaduranga Kantharaja Urs performed the final rites and lit the funeral pyre in accordance with Shri Vaishnava tradition under the guidance of the royal family's head priest Bhanuprakash Sharma.
One could see a sea of humanity thronging to pay their last respects and bid a tearful farewell to the departed soul in the royal cemetery here just before sunset.
Thousands of people lined the Mysore-Nanjungud road to have a last glimpse of the last prince of the Wodeyar dynasty.
After priests performed the elaborate rituals, including chanting of Vedic hymns, Wodeyar was given a state funeral with a 21-gun salute and a police band capturing the sombre mood.
The body was taken in a flower-bedecked golden palanquin to the royal graveyard "Madhuvana" by 3 p.m. from the royal Amba Vilas Palace, a kilometre away.
As a mark of respect to the last scion, the state government declared a public holiday Wednesday and a two-day mourning across the state.
Besides Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Home Minister K.J. George, Revenue Minister V. Sreenivasa Prasad, Housing Minister M.H. Ambarish and scores of religious heads were present at the state funeral.
Earlier in the day, about 100,000 people from all over the old Mysore region thronged the palace to pay homage to Wodeyar as his body lay in the centre of the wedding hall in the palace since dawn after it was brought from Bangalore.
Police had a tough time controlling the surging crowd at the palace and resorted to caning the people to control the situation.
A huge portrait of Wodeyar was kept at a vantage point inside the palace for people to pay floral tributes.
The 26th descendant of the six centuries-old Wodeyar dynasty, Srikantadatta was the only son of the last Mysore maharaja Jayachamarajendra and his second wife Tripurasundaramanni.
