Since Friday those who turn up in short dresses at the famed Virupaksha temple at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hampi are being given a ‘panche’ and a towel at the door by the Vijayanagara district administration.
The administration has kept 500 ‘panche-towel’ sets at the entrance and visitors are asked to don one set before entering the temple “to maintain decency and respect the sentiments of other devotees”.
