The procession of idols marking the graduation of the Navaratri pageant, started from the Padmanabhapuram palace in Thuckalay in Kanniyakumari district to Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
The procession was preceded by a ceremony on the Uppikka Malika within the palace complicated the place the ceremonial sword was handed over to Minister for Archeology and Archives Kadannappally Ramachandran by Director, Division of Archaeology E. Dinesan. It was then handed on to Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan and handed over to Kanyakumary Devaswom Board chairperson Prabha Ramakrishnan.
MLAs C.Ok. Hareendran and M. Vincent, Kanniyakumari District Collector R. Alagameena, Sub Collector Vinay Kumar Meena and Travancore Devaswom Board president P.S. Prasanth had been amongst these current.
The procession later set out after a guard of honour by the armed police divisions of the Kerala and Tamil Nadu police. Whereas the idol of Saraswathi Devi was carried atop an elephant, these of Sucheendram Munnoottinanga and Velimala Kumaraswamy had been carried in palanquins.
After an in a single day stopover on the Mahadeva temple, Kuzhithurai, the procession will attain Kaliyikkavila on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border on Wednesday morning the place it will likely be accorded a reception by the Kerala Police and officers from the Income and Devaswom departments. The idols will attain Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday night.
The idol of Saraswathy Devi can be stored on the mandapam on the jap gate of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple at some point of the Navaratri pageant, whereas the idol of Kumaraswamy can be stored on the Devi temple, Aryasala, and that of Munnoottinanga on the Chenthitta temple.
The procession will head again to Padmanabhapuram after the Navaratri pageant.
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