It is the conclusion of the Vasanta Utsavam today, and we’re going between the final pujas of the Chetty Koyil Perumal Brahmotsavam and this event at the big Perumal temple. Perumal comes out on a wooden Garuda Vahana for a veethi purappadu in the morning (we see Him until the house with the wild pattai pirandai growing out front, from which I take a cutting to root at home). We see the wooden Garuda Vahana for this and perhaps one other purappadu–otherwise, the golden Garuda is for the Brahmotsavam and the silver is for the Periyalvar Utsavam conclusion–otherwise he has no other work, says Thathacharya. In the evening the process repeats, except that this time Perumal is Rama on top of the Hanumantha Vahana.
Mamunigal Thirumanjanam: Today is also Moola nakshatram, so there’s a 1030am event for Sriman Manavala Mamunigal. The patrikai says: “Thirumanjanam (Sacred Bathing Ritual), Sevai (Darshan/Viewing), Saattrumurai (Recitation of Sacred Hymns), and Theertha Ghosti (Distribution of Sacred Water & Prasadam).”