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THRISSUR: An expatriate devotee donated a gold elephant of 800 grams and cash of Rs one crore to Vadakkunnathan Temple. An unnamed devotee presented the golden elephant yesterday morning. As part of this, the devaswom symbolically installed the elephant at the Vadakkunnatha temple under the leadership of Tantri Puliyannoor Sankaranarayanan Namboothiri. Devaswom Assistant Commissioner M G Jagadeesh, manager P Krishna Kumar, committee president P Pankajakshan, secretary T R Hariharan, P Sasidharan, Ramakrishnan, other committee members, Jeevadhanam Manager E D Akhil were present.