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Annual temple festival held

Staff Reporter

DIVINE RITUAL: Devotees witnessing the car festival of Sri Muthalamman Temple at Agaram near Dindigul on Monday. — PHOTO: G. KARTHIKEYAN.

DINDIGUL : Hundreds of devotees witnessed the procession of Aayiram Pon Sapparam of Sri Muthalamman Temple at Agaram, 13 km from here, on Monday.

The annual festival of Sri Muthalamman Temple had commenced with eye-opening ceremony in the morning. After special pujas, the deity Sri Muthalamman was brought to the eye-opening mandapam. With the chanting of holy hymns and banging of percussion instruments, the eyes of the Goddess were opened.

After this ceremony, the deity was shifted to the kolu mandapam for devotees' darshan. Several devotees offered agri-produces harvested in their fields and cattle and poultry as offering to the Goddess.

At night, cracker festival had been performed. Hundreds of crackers lit the sky with multi-colour lights.

The Goddess would be mounted on Sorugu Pattai Sapparam and taken out in a procession around the temple on Tuesday morning as part of the second-day festival.

Devotees in Agaram town panchayat and several villages around it thronged the temple since morning to take part in the festival.

Adequate police personnel were deployed on the temple campus for regulating the devotees.

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