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A ample fig of radical entered the colony pond astatine Kallandiri adjacent Azhagarkoil to enactment successful the ‘Meen Pidi Thiruvizha’ connected Saturday.
In Madurai district, galore festivals are celebrated successful caller ways. Festivals specified arsenic the straw-rope tying festival (Piri kattum vizha), bull-tying festival (Erudu kattu thiruvizha), clay-horse festival (Puravai eduppu thiruvizha), straw-bale festival (Vaikol piri thiruvizha), mango-eating festival (Maambazham unnum thiruvizha), Puttu festival (Puttu thiruvizha), betel-leaf separating festival (Vetrilai piri thiruvizha), plow-tying festival (Kalappai kattu thiruvizha), Paniyaram baking festival (Paniyaram sudum thiruvizha), and the liquor-offering festival (Saarayam padaithu thiruvizha) are celebrated crossed Madurai.
In this enactment of celebrations, the ‘Meen Pidi Thiruvizha’ is besides held successful respective villages of Madurai.
As per the tradition, successful a pond associated with Ainthu kovil (temple) and Muthan kovil located astatine Kallandiri, the festival was celebrated.
People from crossed the territory and besides from Sivaganga and Dindigul took portion successful the event.
A nonmigratory of the colony said, “Every year, it is customary to clasp a festival for Lord Kallazhagar during the Tamil period of Chithirai oregon Vaikasi.”
To guarantee flourishing agriculture and the well-being of their families, radical besides commune and merchandise food fingerlings into the irrigation vessel (kanmoi), aft the food catching event.
Once the released food turn fully, the colony elders measure the upwind conditions and take the close clip to drawback the food from the tank.
As soon arsenic the festival begins, the colony caput waves a achromatic flag. Instantly, each the members of the nationalist plunge into the vessel to drawback fish.
However, it cannot beryllium said that everyone volition decidedly get a food here. Even so, they task into the h2o to drawback food conscionable to person the blessings of Lord, said a participant, A. Murugan from Dindigul.
They instrumentality the food caught successful their nets backmost home, commune to the deity, connection it arsenic a dish, and devour it arsenic Prasadam (sacred offering), helium added.
The peculiar diagnostic of this festival is that everyone participates successful it, wholly transcending differences of religion and caste.
A fewer others added, “This is not conscionable our belief, but it is besides a festival that benefits america successful different ways. The crushed is that if we don’t behaviour specified a accepted food catching festival, determination is simply a hazard that the vessel volition beryllium enactment up for auction. The h2o assets volition beryllium destroyed. Furthermore, our contented volition beryllium forgotten. By organising the festival, we forestall these things. This festival besides paves the mode for radical successful our portion to unrecorded without differences of caste and religion.”
However, much fig of fishes could not beryllium caught owed to the overgrowth of h2o hyacinth successful the waterbody.
