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Venkatesh- On sampradya- all persons in article 25-person is heavily defined in Income Tax Act. But when it comes to constitutional issue of sampradya, it is a person. lineage itself has to be revered as a person and that is our connectivity to our ancestors and giving it a protection under article 26(b) is non-negotiable.

From the hindi text of the constitution, it would mean 'i am here, I am propounding a sampradya' and that is where it is unique to my temple. the constitutional framers could not have pitched it so high that 95% of out the 40,000 temples in Tamil Nadu do not fall under the definition of denomination and are public temples.

on 'sections of hindus'- sect is defined in Shirur Mutt. In this connection, I had the privilege of getting a small note from Karki Mutt [reads it].

Rule 6 of the Travancore Cochin temple entry rules: this is not regarding sabarimala but all temples in south india primarily when the women undergo a monthly biological process voluntarily by their own discipline they don;t enter temples. this is a non-written rule even in the house they don;t enter the puja room. This is my belief, I can't give a scientific explanation but when science ends belief begins. This is practised as a discipline by all ladies or most ladies in South.