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How village temples preserve a sense of community - a lesson from #govindarajapuram
Most palakkad agraharams are generally a single long street with town house style layouts. Most of them have a small temple - each with its own history agama and utsava. The Govindarajapuram
Most palakkad agraharams are generally a single long street with town house style layouts. Most of them have a small temple - each with its own history agama and utsava. The Govindarajapuram
temple has sri bhumi sametha varadaraja as it's deity and follows the vaikasana agama and has its chariot festival around utthradam of mesha masam (chittirai). The palakkad agraharams originally were landed but with time and redistribution - many of the families fell into penury
(including ours) -leading to migration all over the country (and abroad). As the famous palakkad person from tirunellai TN Seshan said - became cooks clerks or civil servants. But thankfully the palakkad agraharams did not go entirely the way of the Tanjore ones...
samkalpam for #kalababishekam prior to the ther.. purushasukta abishekam for mulavar taitriya upanishad parayaNam ... The samkalpam stresses on the welfare of the grAmam and its residents
After 4 years #amma making the trip to the annual #ther at #govindarajapuram Pandemic robbed her participation in her favorite event - a restart today
The usual pit stop.. #pongal in the evening is a treat!
A sign enroute #kalpathi
