2,500-year-old Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham gets 71st pontiff
Duddu Satya Venkata Surya Subrahmanya Ganesha Sharma Dravid, a Rig Veda scholar, has been anointed as Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham's Acharya.
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