Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Makara Jyothi is the celestial star Sirius that can be seen above the secret fire lit event of Makaravilakku conducted by Travancore Devasom Board at ponnambalamedu near Sabarimala Temple in Kerala on Makara Sankranti every year with the help of Forest department, KSEB and Kerala police and other agencies of Government of Kerala.
Makaravilaku appears in Ponnambalamedu Devotees gather at Sabrimala sannidhanam to get glimpse of Makara Jyothi.. Makaravilakku is a fire lit by the Travancore Devaswom Board secretly on the Makara Jyothi day for 3 times at ponnambalamedu with the help of Forest department, KSEB, Kerala police and other agencies of Government of Kerala.
Makara Jyothi is the name given to the celestial star ... the judges directed the Government of Kerala to use the police force to ensure that restriction was ...
Makara Jyothi is a star which is worshiped by pilgrims in huge numbers at Sabarimala Temple in Kerala on Makara Sankranti on 14 January every year. It is believed that the deity Ayyappan asserts himself as Makara Jyothi to bless his devotees. The crowd crush is the worst recorded accident to have occurred in Sabarimala.
Sabarimala stampede is a human crowd crush that occurred at Sabarimala temple in the Indian state of Kerala in 1999. [1] On 14 January 1999, (the Makara Jyothi Day), 53 people, the majority of them from outside Kerala, died in the crowd crush at the Pamba base camp caused by, among other things, the collapse of the sides of a hillock.
As per Government of Kerala, there is a theory that the temple of Sabarimala was of Buddhist origin. [55] Ayyappan is also revered by Muslims in Kerala due to his association with Vavar. [ 17 ] [ 8 ] In this mythology, Ayyappa confronts the plunder-driven pirate robber Vavar in the jungle with Ayyappa defeating Vavar, who then becomes Ayyappa's ...
Thiruvabharanam is the sacred ornaments of Ayyappan, the presiding deity of Sabarimala temple. The ornaments are made of gold. It is believed that these ornaments are made at the orders of the Pandalam King, who adopted Ayyappan as his child.
This fraud of Makara Jyothi too was essentially a local fraud perpetrated on the local people by the local government, though it is now marketed as part of Religious-tourism. Naturally, it is the local activists who took the initiative to expose it.