10-day Margazhi festival at Sthanumalayan Swamy Temple begins with flag-hoisting ritual

The ten-day Margazhi festival of Sthanumalayan Swamy temple successful Suchindram began with a flag-hoisting ceremonial connected Thursday.

The ceremonial emblem (kodi pattam) was taken successful procession and handed implicit to the temple authorities connected Wednesday. Following that rituals and pujas were conducted arsenic per agamic traditions, nether the enactment of Vattapalli mutt Sthanikar Sivaprasad connected Thursday morning.

Following that, a emblem hoisting ceremonial was performed by Dileep Nambuthiri, Sthanikar of Therku Mann mutt.

Kanniyakumari MP Vijay Vasanth, Kanniyakumari MLA Thalavai Sundaram, temple authorities and officials from Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department were present.

The large events of the 10-day fest ‘Makkalmaar Sandhippu’ is scheduled to beryllium held connected December 27, ‘Panchamurthi’ darshan connected December 29, car festival connected January 2 and ‘Sapthavarnam’ and ‘Arudhra’ darshan connected January 3.