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Maha Deepam copra lift down after 10 days
Posted on: 04/Dec/2018 12:55:50 PM
The various events of the 10th Day Lamp lighting ceremony of Maha Deepam on the peak of the temple on the 10th Day of the Karthigai festival, including:
- Bringing of the ghee from the temple for the lighting of the Maha Deepam
- Carrying the ‘ghada’ cotton cloth used as the giant wick for the lamp to burn
- Pouring the ghee in the copra lamp pot and inserting the cotton cloth as the wick and lighting the lamp.
- The mountainous route and the various ponds
- The lamp copra pot being brought down after the 10th day of the karthigai festival on 4th December morning (today)
Further, Special Deeparadhanai is scheduled to be performed for the Deepam Copra oil pot at 6.00 PM in the ‘Aayiram Kaal Mandapam’.
