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On the 2nd time of the nine-day yearly ‘Kartheeka Brahmotsavams’ astatine the Tiruchanur temple, the idol of Goddess Padmavati Ammavaru was carried connected the ‘Pedda Sesha Vahanam,’ which resembles a seven-hooded serpent. The procession took spot astir the temple analyzable connected Tuesday.
The Goddess was adorned successful the signifier of ‘Paramapadhanatha’ oregon ‘Vaikunthanatha,’ a manifestation considered the ultimate deity successful the Hindu pantheon, who grants ‘Moksha’ (liberation) to devotees who surrender to the divine. Seated beneath the protective canopy of the serpent Adisesha’s hoods, the deity offered blessings to the multitude of devotees who had gathered for the festive event. In a chiseled posture, Padmavati held the beatified discus and conch successful her precocious hands, a mace successful her 3rd hand, and rested her 4th manus regally upon her knee.
Despite the continuous rain, taste troupes featuring artistes performed Kolatam, Chekka Bhajana, and played assorted philharmonic instruments, starring the procession. Women of Tiruchanur participated enthusiastically, offering camphor ‘harathi’ (a signifier of worship) arsenic the procession arrived astatine their homes.
Hamsa Vahanam
Later successful the evening, the deity was carried connected the ‘Hamsa Vahanam,’ which is shaped similar a swan. In Hindu mythology, the swan is an emblem of intellect and wisdom, symbolizing the powerfulness of discernment—its fabled quality to abstracted beverage from water. Consequently, witnessing the procession connected the ‘Hamsa Vahanam’ is believed to bestow cognition upon the observer.
