The nine day festival of Dasara started today. I visited Sringeri’s Shankar Mutt today in the evening. The Mutt usually celebrates this festival as the most important one as Sharadamba is the presiding deity. I rode to temple and found car parking space with a great difficulty. Parked somewhere on the rear side of the temple and walked almost a quarter a kilometer to the destination. Entered temple from rear gate and started to feel the vibrations of the festival evening. The temple front open space was filled with colorful tents for the occasion. There could be around 125-150 devotees in the temple premises at that time. People were dressed colorfully apt to the occasion. The Mutt organized Yakshagana play in temple. The play was in Kannada and the sight was colorful. Three artists were performing the roles of a rakshasa, some lady (I could not make out) and Narada respectively. There was an orchestra to add music to the play. Yakshagana play was completely traditional with no latest instruments.
The flashing of the women jewelry in lights, smiles, greetings, and few reading religious texts, few in meditation, few watching play, few lined up for prasadam and rest of them in line to have darsanam was a sight of grandeur. Sharadamba today was decorated as Brahmi avataram. Ammavaru sat on Hamsa (Swan) Vahana. The idol with blissful smile and gold ornaments with mottled stones made the idol of Sharadamda more beautiful.
I think the festival started with a bang.
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