{"id":42675,"date":"2017-02-27T21:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=42675"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:23:36","slug":"10-day-sree-vallabha-temple-festival-in-thiruvalla-to-begin-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=42675","title":{"rendered":"10-day Sree Vallabha Temple festival in Thiruvalla to begin on Tuesday &#124; The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-body-14269002-17374637\">\nHundreds of devotees, majority of them women, took out a unique procession carrying plantains of \u2018kaali\u2019 variety to the Sree Vallabha Temple in Thiruvalla for the unique offering of \u2018Pantheerayirom\u2019 vazhipadu held as a prelude to the annual temple festival there on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe devotees, singing Krishna bhajans, began the procession from the Mahadevar temple in the adjoining village of Thukalasserry.<br \/>\nA total of 12,001 plantains were offered to the presiding deity as part of the ritual.<br \/>\nThe plantains offered to the deity were distributed as prasadom among the devotees present there after the Pantheeradipuja.<br \/>\nTo the Vaishnaites, the centuries\u2019 old Sree Vallabha Temple is one among the 108 tirupatis in the country.<br \/>\nThe 10-day temple festival will begin with the Kodiyettu ceremony on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<p>The Tantri (chief priest), Akkeeramon Kalidasan Bhattathirippad of Kuzhikkattu Illom, will perform the rituals in connection with the Kodiyettu and the ceremonial hoisting of the flag will be held in the auspicious muhurthom between 11.06 a.m. and 11.47 a.m. on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe auspicious Utsavabali ritual will be performed at the temple in the afternoon on all days from March 1 to March 8.<br \/>\nThe ritualistic Pallivetta will be held on March 8 evening. The ceremonial Arattu and procession, marking the grand culmination of the festival will be held on March 9 afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_hoverrDone\">Cricketer Sreesanth and playback singer Madhu Balakrishnan will inaugurate the cultural programmes in connection with the temple festival on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kathakali performance will be held as an offering to the presiding deity after the Athazhapuja on all 10 days.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of devotees, majority of them women, took out a unique procession carrying plantains of \u2018kaali\u2019 variety to the Sree Vallabha Temple in Thiruvalla for the unique offering of \u2018Pantheerayirom\u2019 vazhipadu held as a prelude to the annual temple festival there on Sunday. The devotees, singing Krishna bhajans, began the procession from the Mahadevar temple [&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":[1159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42675"}],"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=42675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}