The puja here was to start at 730pm, by the time we came there it was past 9pm so we had missed the ambu event for sure. The place was calm enough, felt like a regular Tuesday with the regular devotee crowding. We went in search of the purappadu, which we found on Bharati Street. I don’t believe any other temple did a purappadu on this night. But here was Ghousiga’s signature little red tractor was pulling the deity along. They were stopped at the doorstep of another temple (it’s courtesy or convention to do so when another deity passes by, presumably) where the ambu event was already over–we saw the “dead” banana plant across the street. We had kesari prasadam there, got photos and went on our way.
We could never get to Lawspet that evening. No purappadu there for that other Murugan temple in our set, but they would have had the ambu event just outside the temple in the street.