Since the Kamakshi Amman Koyil has done its Balalayam, no major festivities or utsavas will take place. Navaratri is therefore not marked this year with any degree of grandeur, but is marked only by daily abhishekams and aradhanais in the evenings. There’s a patrikai posted outside the temple with the daily schedule and the names of the Ubhayakaras.
Missed It
Fabulous Valayalkaappu alankaram. The sheer scale of it blows one away. Not allowing photography of it is a crime. We only managed photos of the bangles that had been assembled a…
Shodasha Lakshmi homam, Sahasranama recitation typically and with a vilakku puja in the evenings. (In the model of the Candi Homan, something to do with vegetables.) We didn’t see…
(Rahu kaalam): 108 Pongal offering 2pm onwards cooking, after 3-530 or so puja. Very delayed. Arun went. The first pot of pongal that’s set to cook seems to be the temple’s own.…
3pm on the 1st Tuesday of Aadi Masam is a Manja neer/Kuzhambu Abhishekam at the Kamakshi Amman temple. The dravyangal or substances used in all the thousand abhishekams happening…