Dehradun, September 12, 2013: The deathly silence brooding over Kedarnath since the flash floods that devastated Uttarakhand in June broke in the early hours of Wednesday by the chanting of Vedic hymns as prayers resumed at the Himalayan shrine 86 days after the floods and landslips left more than 400 dead in the Kedar valley. As the clock struck 7, the chief priest of the 6th century shrine, Rawal Bhima, Shankar Ling Shivacharya, unlocked the portals of the temple and stepped into the sanctum sanctorum to perform the puja

Source: The Hindu, September 12, 2013