Spiritual fervour pervaded the temple town of Srirangam, where thousands of devotees turned out to offer worship to Lord Ranganatha at Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple on the occasion of Vaikunta Ekadasi on December 23.
The entire temple complex of Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple resonated with ‘ranga, ranga and govinda, govinda’ chants of devotees who gathered in large numbers from near and far to have a darshan of Sri Namperumal on the auspicious Ekadasi day in the Tamil month of Marghazhi.
Clad in ‘Ratnangi,’ Sri Namperumal passed through the Paramapada Vasal, which opened at 4 am. The processional deity left the ‘Moolasthanam’ at 3 a.m. and was taken in a procession amid chants of thousands of devotees lined up in the praharams. The procession went through Raja Mahendran Tiruchutru and Kulasekaran Tiruchutru and reached the ‘Vraja Nadhi Mandapam’, where the deity halted for some time.
