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Aadi Celebrations
This festival is celebrated for the birth of the Tamil month of Aadi. This is the beginning of all the festivals during the festival season. Once Aadi festival starts all other festivals follow one by one. During the month of Thai and Aadi the sun changes directions so it is celebrated in that way. Aadi festival is special for various ammans.
It is celebrated in a special way in temples like Mangadu Kamakshi temple. All Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays of this month are considered very auspicious days. In Aadi Every Friday is celebrated as "Aadi Velli".
The new moon day of this month is celebrated as "Aadi Amavasai" which is to remember our ancestors who have reached God. According to the Tamil calendar, Aadi is the fourth month of the year.
The first day of this month, usually falling on July 16, is celebrated as Aadi Pandigai or Aadi Pirappu, which is an important festival to most Tamils, especially newly-weds. The Aagamas and the Vedas ascribe no special significance to the day and so it is seen and celebrated more as a traditional festival. The most visible manifestation of the month of Aadi is the huge ’kolams’ that are painstakingly patterned early each morning in front of houses.
They are usually bordered with red ’kaavi’ and across the front doorway at the top are strung mango leaves. The first of the month is marked with a special puja, followed by a feast with ’payasam’ prepared with coconut milk, ’puran poli’ and vadai. Traditionally, the newly wedded couple is invited to the girl’s house and the couple is gifted new clothes and other presents. Aadi is a month of fervour and observances in Amman temples, where prayers and pujas are offered to propitiate the powerful goddesses and seek their protection from the inauspicious aspects that are often associated with the month. No weddings or other similar functions are celebrated during Aadi. It is during this time that the monsoon peaks on the west coast and the rivers of Tamil Nadu, shrunken in the summer heat, get replenished, often to near full levels.
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