Over 1 lakh devotees witness ‘Nijaroopa Darshanam’ on Chandanotsavam

Hundreds of devotees from crossed the State thronged the Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple connected Monday to witnesser the ineffable ‘Nijaroopa Darshanam’ of the presiding deity arsenic portion of the yearly ‘Chandanotsavam’.

Following the ‘Suprabhatha Seva’, the sandalwood paste covering the deity was removed, a ritual performed lone erstwhile a twelvemonth connected this occasion. Hereditary trustee and Governor of Goa, P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, on with his family, offered silk apparel to the deity astatine astir 2.45 a.m. and had the archetypal ‘darshan’. Representing the State Government, Home Minister V. Anitha presented ‘pattu vasthrams’ to the deity.