A large number of devotees witnessed Sri Chamundeshwari Vardhanti Utsava atop Chamundi hills in Mysuru on Monday, July 10.
The Vardhanti Utsava commenced around 10:30 a.m. with the members of the erstwhile royal family Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and his wife Trishikha Kumari Wadiyar pulling the decorated ‘Pallakki’ carrying with the idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari, for a distance.
Minister for Transport Ramalinga Reddy joined them in pulling the ‘pallakki’. The flower bedecked palanquin was carried around the temple by the devotees amidst loud cheers from the huge crowd that had gathered on the hilltop to witness the rituals.
