Urul Angapradakshinam Festival au kerala fête hindoue dans laquelle dévot rouler dans les sentiers rugueux et road et enfin atteindre en avant du Temple
5012 x 3355 px | 42,4 x 28,4 cm | 16,7 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
20 mars 2010
Lieu:
Sarkara Devi Temple, Pandakasala Sarkara Road, Sarkara, Chirayinkeezhu, Kerala, India
Informations supplémentaires:
Urul Festival at Sarkaradevi Temple. Sarkaradevi Temple is one of the most important temples in south india. It is situated South of the Chirayinkil Taluk in the North-West of Trivandrum District. Tradition accords a remote antiquity to this temple. Its main deity is Bhadrakali. Urul is important ceremony connected with Meenabharani celebrations. It is an occation of ground festivity for the whole region of Sarkara. During earlier times the Urul (ceremonial rounding of the temple by devotees) was conducted as an offering by four jenmi families of the four Kara or surrounding regions of the temple vicinity. They appointed people who took special vows of penance and fasting for three days before the actual Urul ceremony.At 3.30 in the morning the Urul devotees from different direction rolling through the ground for five to eight kilometers would reach the Sarkara Temple premises and pay the deity by rolling the Temple seven times. That particular ritual is Known as Urul Sandhippu (coming together of all the Urul). At this time special poojas are conducted in the temple which work the climatic of a whole night of devotion, ritual and festivity.It is reported in recent years that the number of Urul devotees have increased so much that the temple premises could not contain all of them and they reached beyond to the village paths even at the moment of Urul sandhippu. This shows the increasing faith and hope of the people in such religious ceremonies related to the Sarkara Temple.The ceremonies on the tenth-day of the Meenabharani festival mark the climax of a grand final of an annual feat. The day opened with the typical kerala religious ritual of Pongal which is solely a women's offering to mother Goddess or to the sun God. Several women assemble in the temple premises and near by areas bringing with them mud pots which are often used for Pongal, the required quantity of rice, jaggery ghee, plantain etc., and firewood and cook the Pongala.
