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A majestic woody chariot carrying Sri Govindaraja Swamy and his consorts Sridevi and Bhudevi, rolled down the 4 streets encircling the temple present connected Saturday arsenic portion of ‘Rathotsavam’ conducted during the yearly Brahmotsavams.
The lawsuit conducted connected the penultimate time of the nine-day yearly festival, drew ample crowds who pulled the chariot utilizing a immense enactment connected to it.
After the idols were brought from the temple and mounted atop the chariot, hundreds of devotees pulled the vehicle. Meanwhile, the TTD engineering unit applied brakes and managed to crook the wheels to manoeuvre the constrictive stretches and the thoroughfare corners.
As is the age-old practice, devotees hurled stone brackish and capsicum astatine the chariot and carried location the capsicum pieces crushed nether its wheels arsenic ‘prasadam’.
In the evening, the idol of Govindaraja Swamy was dressed up arsenic a warrior and carried successful a procession connected an ‘Aswa Vahanam’, a bearer resembling a horse.
