Around 8pm, there are two lines of ladies sitting outside the utsava mandapam, watching the puja. In the main sannadhi mandapa, men are doling out prasadam on plates in anticipation of the puja getting over. The priests make some time for women to sing. Then the Navaratri puja continues with kunkuma archanai. There will be a deeparadhanai after and of course the viniyogam though we don’t stay for that. Perumal calls, and we don’t want to miss his emergence from Thayar’s chamber!
We had designs of focusing on Angalamman for the Annabhishekam as the only other significant abhishekam we’ve seen here has been the Theipirai Ashtami Kali Abhishekam and we’ve…
Gurukkal said they were ready to do the Ambu Podudal, which properly should happen around 630pm, I learned, perhaps based on the tithi timings. It roughly did. Alankaram still…
Today’s alankaram at Nandhikeswara is Saraswati as today is Saraswati puja, but this alankaram is done by the old priests of the temple since they came on hard times after leaving…
The Sivan Koyil was abuzz–as usual. I ran up to Arasoo Mama and told him I was going to catch him again when things were more free to sing that Abhirami padhigam I love so much.…
Same kunkuma archanai puja going on. Many women doing it. Alankaram today is Angala Parameswari! Need to check against Arun’s photos – one of the prior days, she was Raja…