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The yearly ‘Gangamma Jatara’ successful Tirupati ended with frenzy and ecstasy successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday, portion it came to a expansive adjacent connected Wednesday nighttime successful Chittoor.
In Tirupati, devotees dressed up successful a assortment of caller costumes and guises representing mythological characters and started thronging the Thathayagunta Gangamma temple close from precocious Tuesday evening to connection prayers.
The full temple premises represented a colony fair, with colourful lighting, pandals to insulate the bare-footed devotees from the sun-baked roads and scores of thoroughfare vendors selling sundries and novelties.
A immense clay idol of Gangamma, coated with ember and kumkum, was installed astatine the temple entrance. The eyes were made to look squinted till the last ritual was conducted successful the aboriginal morning. It is an past content that the aggravated look of the goddess, if focused connected a azygous point, could pain the spot and make large-scale destruction, and hence the eyeballs were made to look squinted.
The priests offered prayers to the idol successful the beingness of thousands of devotees and smashed it into respective pieces, which were collected by the devout. The lawsuit signalled the extremity of the yearly festival.
Meanwhile, successful Chittoor the jatara came to adjacent with thousands of devotees joining the last procession and the ceremonial immersion of Gangamma’s idol astatine Kattamanchi tank.
From the aboriginal hours, streets crossed Chittoor municipality were filled with devotees carrying offerings, breaking coconuts, and taking portion successful age-old rituals. The procession rolled done the arterial junctions to the dependable of drum beats, people songs, and devotional chants. Traditional dancers, section bands, and taste groups moved on with the procession, drafting immense crowds
Deputy Superintendent of Police (Chittoor) J. Venkatanarayana supervised the bandobast with implicit 600 unit deployed crossed the metropolis to modulate postulation and negociate the dense unreserved of devotees. Civic workers continued sanitation enactment passim the celebrations, portion aesculapian teams remained connected standby astatine cardinal points. Several voluntary organisations and section leaders arranged ‘annadanam’ astatine Bazaar Street, Church Street, Doddialle, Santhapeta, Kongareddipalle, Obanapalle, and Estate areas.
The last time besides brought bully concern for section traders. Food stalls, angiosperm vendors, and artifact sellers saw dependable crowds during the past week, portion devotees from Chittoor territory and neighbouring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka gathered to witnesser the celebrations.
