2017 Arunachala Karthigai Festival: Photographs of Deepam Festival

Cultural Programmes regularly held in Auditorium, 4th Prakaram

Dance academies in Tamil Nadu send Bharat Natayam dancers to perform

Dance and Music programmes are very professional

Illuminations throughout the Temple and around the Temple Tanks

This large illumination outside the Alankaram Mandapam off Car Street

Traditional musicians playing in front of processions and on the streets of Tiruvannamalai

Relations come to perform circumambulation of the Temple with baby in a cotton cradle (Karumbu Thutti)

The Deepam Cauldron created in 2016, has now been repaired and repainted and awaits in the 1000 Pillar Hall to be soon carried to the top of Arunachala

Ghee awaits in one of the Temple rooms, also to be transported to the top of Arunachala

Duty Over and Coming Down

I recently received a copy of the below photo of the 2012 Deepam Cauldron on its way down the Hill after completion of this year's Deepam Festival. This year the Deepam Flame was alight for 11 nights. 

Well done to you -- and now time to rest until next year's duty. And that is exactly what will happen as the cauldron will be left undisturbed and carefully stored in a special room at Arunachaleswarar Temple until Deepam 2013.