Tuesday 27 November 2012

Trikarthika Festival on 27 November 2012


Trikarthika Festival to be celebrated on 27 November 2012.  The entire temple primses will be lit by earthen lamp (edingil). 

Eighteen women devotee s who are practicing for the Dhanu Masa Thiruvathira has made a “ Sahasra Therali Nivadyam “ ( 1000 Theralis, - therali is made out of the mix of rice powder with Jaggery , banana , ghee, cardamom  etc , steamed in a leaf called Therali) offering on the occasion. All  devotees are welcomed for the occasion.

Image of Therali Nivadyams


The Thrikarthika in ‘Vrischikam’ (November-December) is an auspicious temple festival, also a Hindu festival in which the temple premise or the worship place is adorned with a huge number of oil-lit lamps. The festival is also known as ‘Karthika Vilakku’. The festival falls on the ‘Karthika’ day of Vrischikam.

The festival is celebrated to commemorate the birth of Lord Subramanian or Lord Murukan (Lord Subramanian is also known as ‘Karthikeyan’ means Born in the Karthika Asterism).

The festival is celebrated by adorning the worship place (may be a temple, may be a Thara or may be our own home) with a huge number of oil lit lamps to make the place delicious for eyes. Instead of lamps now the people uses ‘Chirathu’ (a small pot like structure made of mud). 

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