Somnath, Feb. 11 -- A priest, Sitaram Shastry, has claimed that he has been the custodian of the broken fragments from the ancient Shivling of Gujarat's Somnath temple, which was demolished by Mahmud of Ghazni in 11th century.

In a self-made video, Sitaram Shastry, a priest from the lineage of saints has claimed that he has been preserving the pieces of the sacred Lingam from last 21 years and now that he wants it to get consecrated at the Somnath Temple.

For this purpose, he has met spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar who has voiced support to him in this resolution.

Shastry said, "I received these statues 21 years ago. Before this, my uncle had kept it. He gave me this and ordered me to install at least 2 of them in Somnath temple ...