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SABARIMALA |
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The pilgrimage
to Sabarimala is reminiscent of the Lord's journey to the forest to fetch leopard's milk.
The Irumudi or two-compartment cloth bag, which the pilgrim carries on his head, is said
to represent the bundle, which the Lord Himself carried. It contains in the front
compartment a coconut filled with ghee-the main offering to the deity-and in the rear,
articles of food required on the way.
History
As far as history is concerned, it revolves around the troubled times that prevailed in
the kingdom of Pendulum at the very early period when the depredations of a robber chief
called Udayanan rocked the whole country. The hill tracts of the Western Ghats were dotted
with several villages and each village had Ayyappa as the guardian deity. Udayanan
and his followers, bent on defilement and Plunder, laid waste to these villages and
shrines including Sabarimala. |
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