Temple procession retains Thiruvananthapuram airport shut for five hours, flights rescheduled

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 1: With the Sree Padmanabha Swami Alpassi pageant ‘Arattu’ procession going down on Tuesday, the Thiruvananthapuram worldwide airport was shut down from 4 p.m.

until 9 p.m.

because the procession passes by its runway.

The ten-day Alpassi pageant concludes with the ‘Arattu’. The procession crosses the airport and reaches the Shankumukham seashore whereby the idols are dipped within the sea for the normal and ritualistic ‘Arattu’ or holy bathtub of the lord.

During the ten-day Painguni pageant in April, the identical routine is performed.

There is an ‘Arattu Mandapam’ close to the airport runway the place the idols are saved in sanctity and this commenced in the course of the regime of Anizham Thirunal Marthandavarma within the 18th century, a lot earlier than the airport was constructed. The procession to the Shankumukham seashore has to cross by the runway of Thiruvananthapuram airport and people who go along with the procession relaxation for a while on the Arattu mandapam.

Talking to IANS, businessman and Sree Padmanabha devotee, Sukumaran Nair, stated “The Arattu procession has been a ritual of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple and it is passing through the airport runway to the Shankumukham sea for a holy dip of the idols. This has been in place before 1932 when the Thiruvananthapuram airport came into being.”

The Airport Authority points NOTAM (Notice to Airmen), which accommodates data regarding the institution, situation or change in any facility, service, or process amongst others in airspace administration, every week forward of the procession, airport sources advised IANS.

Armed CISF personnel stand guard on each side of the runway when the procession is crossing it.

Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple officers advised IANS that the record of members within the procession can be offered to the airport administration and solely those that have passes can be collaborating within the procession and there can be a strict verify by each Kerala Police and CISF on those that are crossing the runway.

The temple administration additionally stated that the procession strikes by airport runway as this space has been a part of the normal ‘Arattu’ path to Sanghumugham sea for the holy dip.

The procession could have adorned autos carrying idols, accompanied by monks of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple, members of the erstwhile Travancore princely state, caparisoned elephants, police band, and mounted police personnel on horses accompanying the idols of the lord.

Moolam Thirunal Ramavarma, who’s the current titular ruler of Travancore, holds the normal sword as he accompany the procession to the Sanghumugham seashore. The rulers of Travancore used to rule the erstwhile kingdom as “Sree Padmanabha Dasas” or servants of Sree Padmanabha Swamy and custom and perception is that Travancore was dominated by Sree Padmanabha Swamy with the royal household the “keepers” of the dominion.

Temple procession retains Thiruvananthapuram airport shut for five hours, flights rescheduled IANS 02 November 2022 Post Your Comments Shared Recently! Mandaviya critiques marketing campaign on disposal of pending issues
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