← In and around Pondicherry

Srinivasa Perumal Koyil

Field notes

Srinivasa Perumal Koyil · Srinivasa Perumal Koyil Narasimha Jayanti, ThirumanjanamSrinivasa Perumal · Srinivasa Perumal Koyil Narasimha Jayanti, Thirumanjanam

Srinivasa Narasimha Thirumanjanam

Narasimhar Thirumanjanam at Srinivasa Perumal in the morning – a very beautiful darshanam of Narasimha with the milk flowing on him. “Today is our jayanti celebration, not that of…

Srinivasa Perumal Koyil · Temple Visits Srinivasa Perumal · Temple Visits

Getting to know the Srinivasa Perumal Koyil–or not

Conversation with the priest in the main Perumal sannadhi is strange. Old man, never seen him before. Tells us that Narasimha Jayanti is on May 1, gives us patrikai. I ask him…

Srinivasa Perumal Koyil · Temple Visits Srinivasa Perumal · Temple Visits

Pattusalis and Padmasalis

We’re exploring this temple a little further up MG Road into Muthialpet as a second Perumal shrine to document. This is a Thenkalai temple (the town’s big Perumal temple is…

Photographs