Bhubaneswar: : The Jagannath Temple at Puri will continue to maintain its tradition of allowing the Nepal King to perform the special puja inside the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine even after the phasing out of the 239-year-old monarchy in the Himalayan kingdom. “We will like to maintain the age-old tradition in the temple. It does not matter if the monarchy in Nepal exists or not,” chief administrator of the temple Suresh Chandra Mohapatra said. Saying that King Gyanendra would be conferred the same status as given to his forefathers at the temple, he said the royal family of Nepal had special rights in the shrine. The temple’s record of rights clearly stipulates how to treat the King of Nepal as he enjoys the right of a ‘sevak’ of the Lord.