{"id":119529,"date":"2017-03-01T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=43190"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:39:10","slug":"sreevallabha-temple-ready-annual-fete-hindu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119529","title":{"rendered":"Sreevallabha Temple ready for annual fete | The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-body-14269002-17385716\">\n<p>The annual festival at the centuries\u2019 old Sreevallabha Temple at Sreevallabhapuram in Thiruvalla had a ceremonial start with the auspicious \u2018Kodieyttu\u2019 ceremony on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu is regarded as one among the 108 \u2018Tirupatis\u2019 in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The rituals in connection with the \u2018Kodiyettu\u2019 ceremony began in the forenoon.<\/p>\n<p>The temple chief priest (Tantri), Akkeramon Kalidasan Bhattathiripad of Kuzhikkatt Illom, assisted by the Melsanthi and other priests, performed the rituals.<\/p>\n<p>The Tantri performed puja to golden temple mast, keeping the ceremonial flag at its base.<\/p>\n<p>The hoisting of the ceremonial flag (Kodiyettu) was held in the auspicious <i>muhurthom<\/i> (time) between 11.06 a.m. and 11.47 a.m.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of devotees attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cultural programmes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Noted cricketer Sreesanth and playback singer Madhu Balakrishnan inaugurated the cultural programmes in connection with the annual festival after the \u2018deeparadhana\u2019 at the temple, later, in the evening. K. Unnikrishnan Nair, temple advisory committee president, presided over the function.<\/p>\n<p><b>Utsavabali darshan<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"_hoverrDone\">The auspicious \u2018Utsavabali\u2019 darshan, as part of the annual festival, will be held in the afternoon on all days from Wednesday to March 8. Kathakali performance will be held as an offering to the deity after the \u2018Athazhapuja\u2019 on all 10 days. The ritualistic \u2018Pallivetta\u2019 will be held on March 8 evening and the temple festival will come to a close with the \u2018Aratt\u2019 ceremony followed by the Tantri bringing down the ceremonial flag on the temple mast on March 9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual festival at the centuries\u2019 old Sreevallabha Temple at Sreevallabhapuram in Thiruvalla had a ceremonial start with the auspicious \u2018Kodieyttu\u2019 ceremony on Tuesday. The ancient temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu is regarded as one among the 108 \u2018Tirupatis\u2019 in the country. The rituals in connection with the \u2018Kodiyettu\u2019 ceremony began in the forenoon. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}