The first All India Halegannada Sahitya Sammelana was inaugurated by taking out a procession of Pampa’s work Adi Purana on a silver palanquin and placing it on the dais at Shravanabelgola.
Charukeethi Bhattaraka Swamy of Jain Mutt, Sammelana President Prof.S. Settar and others were present.