In Yaduveer, erstwhile Mysuru kingdom gets new king
Mysuru (Karnataka), May 28 , 2015: Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja, the 22-year-old adopted heir to the Wodiyar dynasty, was on Thursday crowned the 27th king of the erstwhile kingdom of Mysuru. The grand coronation took place in the hallowed precincts (Kalyana Mantap) of Durbar Hall at the Amba Vilas Palace in the city of palaces, about 150 km from Bengaluru. In attendance were members of the extended royal family, about 1,000 special invitees and pontiffs from the region, amid tight security. Clad in royal attire of cream silk robes (kurta-pyjama) and sporting a regal green turban, a bespectacled Yaduveer took oath in Kannada, while seated on a silver throne as the 27th titular head of the Wodiyar dynasty that was founded in 1399 by Raja Wodiyar. "On the auspicious time (9:25-10:38 a.m.) on Dashmi (10th day of the HIndu lunar month), the royal dynasty head priest (dharmadhikari) Janardhana Iyengar anointed Yaduveer as the new head of the erstwhile Hindu kingdom," a palace official told IANS. Queen Pramoda Devi, who adopted Yaduveer as a son to carry on the royal lineage, his biological parents (Tripura Sundara Devi and Swarup Anand Gopalraj Urs), younger sisters of late king Srikantadata Wodiyar and scores of relatives graced the occasion and blessed Yaduveer amid chanting of vedic hymns and Carnatic music tunes. Prominent among those who witnessed the ceremony was the scion's fiancee Trishika Kumari Singh.