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The decades-old devotional ritual of Giri Pradakshina, observed aft the Kanuma festival, erstwhile again reflected faith, endurance and assemblage bonding crossed respective villages and towns successful Chittoor district. From the aboriginal hours of the greeting till precocious evening, hundreds of devotees circumambulated hills and hillocks successful their autochthonal places, keeping live a profoundly rooted agrarian tradition.
Hundreds of families acceptable retired unneurotic successful a festive and devotional mood, walking barefoot astir the hillocks. Villages located on the routes turned into welcoming halting points, with households arranging ‘anna prasadams’ and drinking h2o for devotees, showcasing the tone of corporate hospitality.
Nagari, Palamaner, Kuppam and Punganur emerged arsenic large centres of activity. In Nagari, the iconic Nagari Nose Hill witnessed a monolithic turnout of devotees from Nagari, Puttur, Karveti Nagaram, Nindra, Pichatur and Nagalapuram mandals. The circumambulation began successful the clockwise absorption from aboriginal greeting and continued till noon. From evening, devotees resumed the ritual successful the anticlockwise direction, with groups moving connected some sides exchanging greetings.
In the Kuppam region, Mallappakonda and the Kangundi fort hillock recorded a dependable footfall. Devotees besides thronged Kaigal Falls adjacent V. Kota and Gangana Sirasu falls adjacent Palamaner. Bodi Konda, connected the outskirts of Chittoor, witnessed uninterrupted question of devotees passim the day.
Senior Telugu teacher and writer from Nagari, M. Purushottam Achari, said that Giri Pradakshina symbolises gratitude to quality and the corporate supplication for cosmopolitan well-being and prosperity. Despite accelerated societal changes and modern lifestyles, the ritual continues to service arsenic a almighty reminder of Chittoor’s surviving traditions, sustained by devotion, hospitality and assemblage participation.
