Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Attukal ponkala tomorrow

Attukal ponkala is celebrated tomorrow, at Attukal Bhagavathy temple, Trivandrum. Three million women from Kerala and abroad are expected to participate in the festival, which starts in the morning at 10.15, by imparting fire to ovens (ponkala aduppu) laid  around the temple and most parts of the capital city.  Boiled rice or ponkala is prepared and offered to the goddess in erthern pots.

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