Puthur Vela is an annual festival at the Puthur Thirupuraikkal Bhagavathy temple (10.7877378°N 76.661675°E / 10.7877378; 76.661675), located in Puthur, Kerala, India.
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Puthur Vela is an annual festival at the Puthur Thirupuraikkal Bhagavathy temple (10.7877378°N 76.661675°E / 10.7877378; 76.661675), located in Puthur, Kerala, India.
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Puthur Vela is an annual festival at the Puthur Thirupuraikkal Bhagavathy temple (10.7877378°N 76.661675°E / 10.7877378; 76.661675), located in Puthur, Kerala, India.
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Puthur Vela is an annual festival at the Puthur Thirupuraikkal Bhagavathy temple (10.7877378°N 76.661675°E / 10.7877378; 76.661675), located in Puthur, Kerala, India. The temple houses the Goddess Karnaki, who is believed to be an incarnation of Goddess Parvathi. This temple is famous locally and attracts several hundred devotees every year. The Kadhana vedi (firecrackers) are set off at 6 pm every day after the evening pooja.
The festival is conducted during the month of April. The festivities last for 3 to 4 weeks in the Malayalam month of Meenam, which corresponds to March–April of the Western calendar. The flag symbolizing the beginning of the festivities is hoisted on the first Friday of Meenam. Subsequent evenings are filled with devotional programmes such as Bhajans and carnatic music concerts. The highlights of the festival include Kathakali performances by artists, and traditional temple arts like Ottam Thullal and Chakyar Koothu.
A recent addition, and now a crowd draw, is the Puthur Sree Thirupuraikkal Music and Dance Festival, a festival of Indian classical music and dance which lasts for over a week, depending on the number of artists engaged for performances. Singers like K J Yesudas, Omanakutty, Hariprasad Chaurasya, Hariharan, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Aman and Ayan Ali Khan, Jayachandran, Mano, K S Chitra, L. Subramaniam, Kavitha Krishnamoorty, M.G.
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Puthur-Vela is annual festival at the Puthur Thirupuraikkal Bhagavathy temple, located in Puthur, Kerala, India, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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