Saturday, December 22, 2007











KAAVADIYATTOM


Mainly performed as a votive offering in temples where the presiding deity is Lord Subrah
mania. Here a number of dancers dressed in yellow or rose clothes and smeared all over the body with ashes and each with an ornate kavadi on the shoulder, dance in a row to the rhythmic beatings of instruments like udukku, chenda, etc., Sometimes nagaswaramNadaswaram is also used.Usually performed in Lord murugan temple.

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