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Kartikai Deepam at
Tiruvannamalai
An Image Gallery
- The Arunachaleswarar Temple at
Tiruvannamalai is one of the grandest in India, and is considered to be among the most
revered of the 275 Shiva Temples glorified by the Tamil Tevaram
hymns of the 7th through the 9th centuries. This temple has a great tradition of
festivals, Kartikai Deepam being the grandest. Kartikai Deepam marks the conclusion of the
10 day long festival in the Tamil month of Kartikai (Scorpio), a festival that is marked
by grand processions in which images of Annamalaiyaar and
Unnamulaiyaal are taken out on decorated mounts, through the processional streets of
Tiruvannamalai. Hundreds of thousands gather to celebrated Kartikai Deepam, where a huge
lamp is lit on top of the Tiruvannamalai hill, symbolifying Shiva's appearance as a huge
column of light, whose origins Bhramma and Vishnu were unable to trace. This article is a
collection of images from the Kartikai Deepam festival of November 1997. This years Deepam
falls on the 23rd of November.
 A
view of Kartikai Deepam - the lamp lit on the Tiruvannamalai hill, seen from the
Annamalaiyaar temple.
 Procession of the Panchamurthy images (Vinayakar, Subramanyar,
Arunachaleswarar, Apitakuchambaal, Chandikeswarar) within the temple prakaram
 Decorated image of
Arunachaleswarar
 Arunachaleswarar, returning from the night long Rishabha vahana procession
following the Deepa Utsavam
 Panchamurthy Procession following the lighting of the Deepam
 Yet another view of the Panchamurthy procession following the lighting of the
Deepam
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