Margazhi Masam in Srivilliputtur

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Srimate Godaya Namaha

 

The auspicious month of Margazhi starts tommorrow (dec 16).In the

next few days grand celebrations would commence in all the important

divya desams.

Srivilliputtur the birthplace of Sri Andal,the home of Thiruppavai

will have an added charm during the Margazhi masam for the bhagavathals

with probably the busiest calendar among all the divya desams.Apart from

the 20 day irapathu-pagal pathu utsavam,two more utsavams,the Margazhi

Thirunal utsavam( 9 days) and the Margazhi Neerati Utsavam(8 days)

will take place.

 

The Margazhi thirunal utsavam is much like the adi thirunal utsavam

with sri andal going through the town streets in different vahanams

on different days.on the penultimate day one can witness the UNJAL sevai

of the divya dampatis in the Andal thirukovil(around 11:00 pm).sri Andal

gives darsanam in the chettichi tirukolam.The koodarai vellum seer

sattumurai takes place after the unjal sevai( around 2:30 am)

in the unjal mandapam.Akkaravadisil is distributed to all devotees

present after the sattumurai along with other prasadams.

 

The Margazhi Neeratti utsavam is something special.

It takes place at the Neeratti Mandapam which is near the temple

tank(thirumukkolam) in the evenings.Daily yennai kappu and Thirumanjanam

is performed.Sri Andal also blesses us with the grand darsanam of

one of her Thirukkolams every day.

 

This margazhi has been made sweeter with heavy rains in

Srivilliputtur last week which have filled all the tanks in srivilliputtur

much before the "aazhi mazhai kanna" day

 

 

adiyen

Venkat.s Iyengar