Aadi pooram is Kannika Parameswari’s Nakshatra naal, so at 730am she gets an abhishekam.
We go around 830. Post-abhishekam alankaram done. Ladies setting up the Mandapa – there are dozens of hanging bangles and birds made of coconut leaves–this is their take on the valayal kaappu alankaram. The woman in red is the creative genius behind this. A photograph of Andal is in the middle of it all; after all it’s her nakshatra naal, too. We have prasadam and leave, but the remainder of the puja will happen no doubt in the same pattern as other Kannika pujas – with women sitting with plates of flowers while the priest chants, or doing their own parayanam while he does his.
This initiative is of the World AryaVysya Mahasabha Mahila Vibhag.