What’s wrong if a temple does it? It is an unwritten rule followed in many mutts.
#RAJA RAJESWARI AMMAN TEMPLE NANGANALLUR CODE#
Dress code is followed in other religions too. Why can’t people wear what is mandated rather than being criticised by others. “Such practices are common in many temples of Dakshina Kannada,” he added. He said a temple near JP Nagar doesn’t let people in shorts go near the sanctum sanctorum. How does it matter if a woman is wearing jeans or sari, or a man is dressed in dhoti or shorts? All that matters is devotion,” reasoned Dhananjaya. In god’s eyes, all human beings are the same. “We live in age where women have equal rights as men. DEVOTEES DIVIDED Dhanajaya Padmanabhachar, a techie from JP Nagar, however, says the move is unnecessary. We don’t bar them from entering the premises,” said another temple staffer.
“We advise people to follow the dress code. However, no devotee has been denied entry so far, said Achar. We have to follow our culture,” he told TOI. We advise women not to wear jeans or shorts here. “Of late, we have been noticing that many youngsters visit the temple in shorts. Hayagreeva Achar, member of the temple trust, confirmed that the dress code isn’t new and has been followed for a couple of years. The notice mandates that they tie it with clips or rubber bands. Women aren’t even allowed to leave their hair open. Mandating sari or churidar for women and grown-up girls, it says: “Young girls below 18 years may wear full-length gowns.
This is the 12th sraththam that Vijaya and I are performing in our house(s) in Chennai - we did 9 in Karpagam avenue,3rd street, two in 22nd Cross street at Besantnagar, this one at our own house at Kalakshetra avenue.Temple staffers said the notice, which was put up a couple of months ago, says men should wear dhoti/pants and shirt with or without angvastram (shalya) around their waist. Expenses 2712.00 We brothers gave blouse bits to our four sisters, Rajeswari, and Sudha. Thus the Sraththam of Amma went off well. We did the sraththam in the Hall and the new house has a large space since dining area is separated from the hall.Īfter resting for 2 hours, everyone started leaving by 3-30. Rajeswari helped Vijaya, Kalyani in serving. We two, Aditi, Padma, Prakash, Rajeswari, Saroja, Athimber, Sugavanam, Sudha, Darshini, Jayaraman, Kalyani, Vijay, Poornima ate. 43 Yantras of Shakti deities are installed in the temple and there are 16 steps to. The devotees should go around the temple only in anti-clockwise direction. It is said that the main deity here came up from a Homa kundam. Vathiyar dakshinai was 250+250+400 this year, increased from last year's dakshinai.Īt 1-15 or so we ate. Because of the presence of Raja Rajeswari temple, this place was called Nangai Nallur once and later became Nanganallur. After 2 hours, the Brahmanals had their lunch by 12-15 noon and the rituals got over by 1PM. I performed the Sraththam with participation from Sugavanam and Jayaraman. Sastrigal came by 10-00 and started the rites at 10-20. They were followed by other relatives.Įveryone - Vijaya, Saroja, Kalyani, Rajeswari were extremely busy in cooking and allied jobs. Jayaraman, Kalyani, Poornima were the first to arrive by 6-45. On 23rd, the day of Sraththam, we two got up by 4-15 AM and started the work. On 22nd evening, Vijaya and I cut vegetables. Except for blouse bits from Amudam Stores, we didn't do any other purchase from South Mada steet, Mylapore. This year too I missed the Mylapore ambience. On 23rd morning I purchased Vaazhai Ilai and Pushpam from North Mada Street Thiruvanmiyur. A day before the thithi, we purchased all the vegetables, fruits incl vaazhaipazham from Thiruvanmiyur market. Vijaya and I purchased the grocery items and Vaathiyar saamangal from Marthandam Stores, Lakshmipuram, Thiruvanmiyur. Varatti from a kadai near Marundeeswarar koil. All these years we were doing it in rented houses. This is the first ever sraththam that we are performing at our OWN house (Flat F2, No 3, Kalakshetra Avenue, 2nd Street, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 41). This year (2011) amma's thithi came on Thursday, 23rd June. We three brothers (Sugavanam, Jayaraman, and self) perform the sraththams of our parents every year at Chennai our elder brother Sundaresan performs at Dapodi, Pune.Īmma's Thithi is Aani, Krishna Paksham, Ashtami.