Thousands throng Palani temple for ‘Soorasamharam’

Thousands of devotees visited Sri Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple successful Palani successful Dindigul territory to witnesser ‘Soorasamharam’ connected Monday.

The devotees gathered connected the Giri Veedhis of the temple. The Kanda Sashti festival began astatine the temple connected October 22 with the tying of the ‘Kappu’.

After the peculiar puja and deeparadhana, Lord Chinnakumaraswamy received the beatified lance from Malai Kozhundhu Amman astatine the elevation temple astir 3 p.m. and descended the hills to destruct the asuras. The sanctum sanctorum of the elevation temple was closed aft the lance-receiving ceremony.

Goddesses Valli and Deivanai were brought from Sri Periyanayaki Amman Temple to Sri Padhavinayagar Temple, adjacent the foothill.

The Lord ascended the peacock equine and assembled connected North Giri Street. His army, led by His General Veerabahu, was kept acceptable to instrumentality connected Tharakasuran connected North Giri Street. In the enactment of ‘Soorasamharam,’ the Lord initially summoned Veerabahu to clasp bid talks.

First, Veerabahu came unsocial for bid talks. When the archetypal circular of talks failed, helium again came on with His service to pass the asuras. Later, successful a fiery battle, Lord Muruga killed Tharakasuran and proceeded to East Giri Street to combat Banugopan.

Devotees who observed fasting for the festival ended their accelerated by serving ‘prasadam’ made of fruits. The triumph implicit evil was celebrated astatine Ariyar Mandapam adjacent Sri Padhavinayagar Temple. Special pujas were performed to Lord Chinnakumaraswamy to calm Him down. Later, the Lord ascended connected Indra Vimanam and gave darshan to devotees.‘Tirukkalyanam,’ the celestial wedding, volition instrumentality spot connected Tuesday.

Dindigul Collector S. Saravanan, Palani MLA I. P. Senthilkumar, HR and CE Joint Commissioner Marimuthu, Deputy Commissioner Venkatesh, and Assistant Commissioner Lakshmi were present. Adequate constabulary unit were deployed to guarantee the creaseless behaviour of the event.