Friday, May 10, 2013

Srirangam chitirai utsavam - Kuthiraivahanam 06th May 2013

Srirangam chitirai utsavam - Kuthiraivahanam


Srirangam Vaiyali

We (Kanaka Patti, Atthai, Viji chiti, Bhavani, Ananthi, Sudha, myself) went to the vaiyali. We went in two autos. Once we saw perumal before north chitra veedhi. We got down. Auto followed us was missed and went to north chitra veedhi.

The otha kottu (drum beat). The nadaswaram, theevati (fire) holding people. The Elephant followed by  alwar pasurams by devotes. Next two big umbrellas.  Then Lord ranganathan. Lord Ranganathan was sitting on a golden horse,  the Pearl Pandyan Kondai adorned  in the head he had sword, javelin and arrows.  His right hand shows apaya hasta, his left hand holding the horse.  He was wearing the Blue color velvet cloth. The bottom orange cloth is aptly fit for namperumal. We followed ranganathan went north chitra veedhi joined with other members of our family.

Vaiyali is performed near ther (chariot). First round namperumal went from north (ther end) to south side and back 1 time. Then he comes to south side waited for few minutes... the horse goes back slowly. We are fortunate to witness this. We are very close to namperumal. The sound of ranga... ranga... from the crowd break the sky. The ambience takes us to the vaikundam. This time namperumal moves faster to north side. From there namperumal moved half circle west side then completely moved to east side again west side again east side like this he moved approximately 200 meter. It was fest to our eyes. The beautiful display of namperumal was very nice. The bamboo holding perumal kissed us. My mother in law, my sisters all fell down due to this.

I Thought namperumal want us to remember this event for long time so he came very close to us. The kudai(umbrella) holder and theevati (fire) holder was also moving with them very fast.   Then namperumal moved to north in a straight way. The  vaiyali stops the sound of ranga ranga also stops followed by a great applause from the crowd.



 Beauty of namperumal from back


 Beauty of namperumal from Side


Beauty of namperumal with his apaya hasta


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