Satwik Mujagond, the child who was rescued from a borewell on April 4, will soon have a new name, Siddhalinga Mrutyunjaya, which literally means Siddhalinga who conquered death.
The huge crowd that had gathered around the pit broke into joyous slogans like Sri Siddhalinga Maharaj Ki Jai when the operation was successful.
Similar slogans were raised by the paramedics who shifted the baby and his mother Poojakka in an ambulance from Indi to Vijayapura.
The seer they speak with reverence and after whom the child will be named is the saint Sri Siddhalinga Maharaj who set up an ashram in Lachyan village, the native village of the Mujagonda family.
The saint lived in the late 19th century and was a contemporary of Sri Siddharoodha Swami of Hubballi and Sri Revanasiddeshwara of Solapur. The saint was a native healer.
