Thousands witness Srirangam car fete

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI, MAY 2. Tens of thousands devotees witnessed the annual Chithrai Car festival at the Sri Ranganathaswami Temple in Srirangam today. Thanks to the presence of the unprecedented crowd, within four hours the Car went through the four Chitrai streets and reached its base. Being a very good agricultural year, people from rural areas of Tiruchi, Karur and Perambalur districts thronged the temple from Monday night onwards. The conversion of scores of coconut groves in the Srirangam area into apartments forced people to stay overnight on the main road from Amma Mandapam to the temple, and also on all roads around the temple.

The temple car was flagged off at 6.15 a.m. and it returned to base without any hitch around 10 a.m.

Over 500 heads of cattle, including about 300 calves, were gifted to the temple by the devotees and a spokesman of the temple said the same would be auctioned in a few days as the temple does not have facilities to maintain such a large number of animals.

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