Trichy :

The Hanuman Jayanthi festival was celebrated in a grand manner at Sri Anjaneyar temple in Kallukuzhi with offering of 1,00,008 ‘vada maalai’ (garland of vada) to the main deity on Sunday morning.

A large number of devotees from across Trichy witnessed a spiritual offer of vada maalai to Lord Anjaneyar, the prime deity at the Kallukuzhi Sri Anjaneyar temple. Officials of Hindu religious and charitable endowment (HR&CE) and temple priests made all the arrangements for the yearly festival.

Many devotees involved themselves in the preparation of vada malai on Saturday night. The festival commenced with a special abishekham and aradhana to the Anjaneyar at 5.30am followed by a mega event of garlanding the deity with 1,00,008 vada maalai at 8pm.

The puja was witnessed by a large number of devotees who also got the darshan of the lord. The vada maalai and jangiri maalai were also offered to the Urchavar. The Laksharchanai was held continuously from 9am to 8pm.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Trichy / TNN / December 22nd, 2014