Vedupari ritual held at Srirangam temple

Devotees successful bully numbers witnessed the ‘Thirumangaimannan Vedupari’, a beatified ritual held astatine the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple astatine Srirangam on Tuesday arsenic portion of the Vaikunta Ekadasi festival. The ritual was held connected the eighth time of the ‘Raa Pathu’. 

The processional deity, Sri Namperumal, was brought successful a procession connected a aureate ‘kudhirai vaganam’ to the ‘manal veli’ successful the evening and was taken successful a fast-paced procession for ‘Vaiyali Vagaira Kandarulal’. The deity was thereafter taken to the ‘Thirumamani Asthana Mandapam’.

The ritual is held to people the blessings that the Lord conferred connected Thirumangaimannan erstwhile helium robbed Lord Narayana and His consort, disguised arsenic a recently wed couple, of their valuables. According to legend, the Lord revealed himself and initiated Thirumangaimannan into the ‘Ashtakshara Mantra’. Thus helium became ‘Thirumangai Aazhwar’. The occurrence is enacted each twelvemonth arsenic portion of the ‘Vaikunta Ekadasi’ festival astatine the Srirangam temple.