Baring the right shoulder

[Narayan S. Raja]

On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Girish Beeharry wrote:

> I would have thought the same too. However, in the case of the deity being
> too close to the back wall, one has to rotate clockwise (once or thrice
> etc but never twice; I wonder why)                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Among the Tamil Srivaishnava community,
one has to go around, or bow down, an 
EVEN (never ODD) number of times.  So
this custom is different among different
communities.

Regards,


Raja.