Low-key Mahisha Dasara celebrations were held at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Park in Ashokapuram in Mysuru on Sunday after the authorities refused the organisers permission for the event to be held at the statue of Mahishasura atop Chamundi Hills.
Former Mayor Purushottam, who heads the Mahisha Dasara Organising Committee, was joined by Urulinga Peddi Mutt seer Sri Jnanaprakash Swamiji, noted writer K.S. Bhagavan, retired Professor of University of Mysore Prof. P.V. Nanjaraj Urs and members of various progressive organisations. Mahisha Dasara was celebrated by offerring floral tributes to a portrait of Mahishasura, who is revered by them as a “great ruler of Mahisha Mandal”.
Mahisha Dasara was celebrated a day before the start of the ten-day-long annual Dasara festival, which incidentally marks the slaying of Mahishasura, regarded as a demon, by goddess Chamundeshwari according to mythological accounts.
