The Tamil proverb ‘Do not live in a place where there is no temple’, seems to be meaningless for the people of Ettipatti in Krishnagiri district for they have aborted building a temple fearing death.
Apparently, their councillor E.K. Sankaran died in a road mishap in 2004 because Lord Hanuman got angry at his funding the construction of an Amman temple.
“Sankaran died after he gave money for building the temple at the entrance to our village. We consulted a soothsayer.
He went into a trance and revealed that Hanuman got furious with Sankaran for building that temple without his permission,” said K. Mani, 23, in Ettipatti, a fairly affluent village of over 500 families, many of them possessing tractors and large houses. Now the villagers pray everyday before Hanuman, carved on a roadside rock.