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Sabarimala temple opens tomorrow

Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Ayyappa Temple at Sabarimala will open on Tuesday afternoon for the annual Niraputhari celebrations on Wednesday.

Melshanti (head priest) T.K. Krishnan Namboodiri will open the sanctum sanctorum at 5.30 p.m. and the rituals will begin with Tantri (chief priest) Kandararu Maheswararu performing ‘Ashtadravya Ganapati homam’ the next day morning.

The sanctum sanctorum will open at 3.30 a.m. on Wednesday in view of the ‘Niraputhari’ fete.

The auspicious ‘Niraputhari’ pooja will be performed at the temple between 6.15 a.m. and 6.45 a.m. according to Devaswom executive officer Balachandran Nair.

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