ALLAHABAD, INDIA, March, 2011: Lord Shiva’s net savvy devotees made online requests for performing the rudrabhishek on Mahashivaratri in the temples of Sangam city, with online applications. Many made advance bookings through SMSes.
‘We have received hundreds of online applications from devotees seeking permission to perform the rudrabhishek. Apart from emails and SMSes, many people have telephones us for this,’ said city-based religious scholar Girija Shankar Shastri. Shastri has asked his disciples to share some of his workload of answering the queries.