Halligattu Sri Bhadrakali and Gundiyat Ayyappa Devara Bedu Festival Completed

Virajpet, May 21: The annual Bedu Festival of Halligattu Sri Bhadrakali and Gundiyat Ayyappa Devara near Ponnampet, which is famous for the mud pond festival and has the background of being the only temple in South India with a stone elephant facing the temple, was completed with devotion.

The two-day festival was started by Polavandere, one of the original residents of the village, from the Ainmane of the Chammatti family. Then, special prayers were offered at the three designated deity shrines of the village, namely Macchiyanda, Chendrimada and Kokkanda families, and they gathered at the Polavappanda Kota (temple).

Then, they went to the Gundiyat Ayyappa Temple in Jodubiti, offered prayers and submitted offerings. After the special puja, thousands of coconuts called harake were broken by the devotees in the form of edukai and offered as offerings. A clay dog ​​was handed over in the form of a boat so that the pet dogs of their houses would not be disturbed.

Then, leaving here, the priests ended their fast by eating coconuts and bananas at a designated place, had a communal meal at the Mookalera Ballyamane, went to the Chammateer Ballya house, and went door to door to offer prayers to the deity in various guises.

On the second day of the Bedu festival, a horse and a donkey from the Chammateer and Mookaler houses were decorated and carried to the Ambal near the Sri Bhadrakali temple in the village. As each horse (made artificially) and a donkey from both sides faced each other, the villagers embraced each other, brought mud from the nearby Deva Lake in Ambal, threw mud at each other and celebrated the festival of the gods.

The elders, the young and the children, without any distinction, threw mud at each other and hugged each other. Here, women, people from other villages and relatives are not allowed to throw mud. However, people from other villages and relatives are allowed to celebrate here freely and such people are given a cane stick. Those holding that stick are not allowed to throw mud. Then, they gathered at the Bhadrakali temple, made offerings and went around three times, and after a special puja, the festival was inaugurated.

On this occasion, the temple administration board president, the head of the temple, Chammateer Praveen Uthappa, along with other office bearers of the administration board and prominent families of the village were present and received the grace of God.

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