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Bhopal, Jan 18 (PTI) Two men clad in traditional dhoti and kurta run as fast as they can while an excited commentator discusses the likely outcome of the ongoing game on the ground in fluent Sanskrit.
This setting might mislead one into believing that some ritual is underway but the two men are players trying to score a quick run during a cricket match.
Welcome to the cricket tournament being held for Vedic pandits on the Ankur ground in Bhopal to mark the birth anniversary of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
"Players in this tournament are those who perform rituals as per the Vedas," Sanskriti Bachao Manch"s state president Chandrashekhar Tiwari told PTI on Tuesday.
"This is the second year of this tournament in which participants, who are Vedic pandits, play while wearing traditional dhoti (or Mundu) and kurtas.
They speak to each other in Sanskrit.