Krishna's ePages: February 2013

Photo Album | Attukal Bhagavathi Temple Pongala Mahotsav 2013

Attukal Pongala is the annual day festival of Attukal Bhagavathi Temple located in Thiruvananthapuram/Trivandrum, capital city of Kerala State in South India. The ten days of annual festival is celebrated on February/March every year. This year the festival is held on 18 to 27 February 2013. Nineth day of the festival is celebrated as Pongala (26th February 2013). The Pongala is entered into Guinness World Records for highest number of women participants in annual gathering. The pongala is happening around 5kms of temple surrounding. According to the temple authorities, more than 25 lakhs (2.5 million) women participated in this year. Here I am presenting some of the photos captured during the festival season. More about the temple and festival please follow links. Attukal Bhagavathi Temple, Attukal Pongala 2012

Vilakkukettu Photos

One of the main events of this festival is Vilakkukettu. During this festival season some people doing this vilakkukettu as offering to Attukal Bhagavathi. Usually vilakkukettu can be doing by decorating with different articles like leaves of coconut tree, stem of banana tree, flowers and other decorating items. At night a procession is organized to the temple. Different kinds of cultural arts such as chenda, band, kavadi and others are accompanying along with the vilakkukettu.

Vilakkukett

Chenda

Chenda Melam

Pooja for Vilakkukett

Procession of Vilakkukett

Light & Sound Shows

Fireworks

Trivandrum Floweriest Association

Devotional song perfomance organized byTrivandrum Floweriest Association

Pongala Photos

On the day of Pongala, people prepares different types of dishes like jaggery payasam, milk payasam, therali appam, mandaputtu and boiled green gram to dedicate Attukal Bhagavathi. At the end, the temple priest pours holy water to their dishes.