India Online Journal, November 2001
Author: Jennifer Kumar


Day 21

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Sri Kumarakottam Temple

This temple is very large, and to circle the grabha graha 108 times on a non-festival day would easily take five hours. However, as today was a festival day, and there was so much crowd that it was impossible to see your feet, it must have taken twice as long for this to be completed. Though we did not circle the graba graha at this temple, we did come to participate in the puja at sunset. Due to the crowd, my friend’s father reserved our place in the crowd and prasadam for Rs. 50 earlier this morning. The murthi used for this puja was Arumurugan, which is the form of Murugan with six faces. We had collected the prasadam in a special yellow temple bag and returned home after attending the puja.



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