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’Petta Thullal’, the ritualistic creation marking the past limb of the yearly Sabarimala pilgrimage season, was held with accepted gaiety astatine Erumely connected Sunday.
The teams of Ayyappa devotees from Ambalappuzha and Alangad staged the ceremonial wide creation arsenic thousands thronged the streets of the temple municipality to witnesser the unsocial solemnisation of communal harmony. The Ambalappuzha radical was the archetypal to statesman the creation by 12 noon aft sighting the Brahminy kite successful the sky.
The group, led by Samooha Periyon N. Gopalakrishna Pillai and accompanied by 3 tuskers, danced down the streets of Erumely and was accorded a reception astatine the Nainar mosque by the Erumely Mahallu Muslim Jama-at. After circumambulating the mosque, the radical proceeded to the Sree Dharma Sastha temple, Erumely. The Ambalappuzha radical performed the creation successful the institution of T.H. Asad of the Thazhath House, who represented Vavar.
The Alangad group, led by Ambadath Pradeep R. Menon, began the creation by astir 3.30 p.m. and was received successful beforehand of the Sree Dharma Sastha temple.
More constabulary deployed
In presumption of the heightened pilgrim enactment implicit the past 2 days, an further batch of 200 constabulary unit has been deployed connected work for information and postulation regularisation successful Erumely town.
The festivities astatine Erumely began connected Friday evening with the staging of the Chandanakkudam festival astatine the Nainar mosque.
Meanwhile, the customary procession carrying the Thiruvabharanam (sacred jewellery of the presiding deity astatine Sabarimala) volition acceptable disconnected to the Sabarimala Sannidhanam from Pandalam connected Monday.
