Showing posts with label thai month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thai month. Show all posts

31 January 2016

Mahavillaku Kalyana Mandapam, Arunachaleswarar Temple

This past Friday (January 29, 2016) during the Tamil Month of Thai, Mahavillaku Puja was performed by ladies inside the Kalyana Mandapam, Arunachaleswarar Temple. 


Ladies lined up inside the Kalyana Mandapam

Divine Shakti on Dais in Mandapam

Priests supervising the Puja being conducted in Mandapam

Divine Shakti giving Darshan

4 February 2014

Kuthu Velaku Puja, Kalayana Mandapam, Big Temple


Around January 14 each year marks the beginning of the Tamil month Thai. As Thai is regarded as an auspicious period, each Friday of the month is celebrated with special pujas in many Temples in Tamil Nadu. 

On the third Friday of Thai month, Kuthu Velaku Puja is performed at Arunachaleswarar Koil here at Tiruvannamalai. This year the date for the Puja fell on January 31, 2014. 

The below photographs are of ladies performing their individual pujas in the Kalyana Mandapam which is located in the Third Prakaram opposite the Siva Sannidhi.