SRIRAMA'S TEMPLE - TRIPRAYAR

On Ekadasi day Srirama's image is taken round in procession with nearly 21 elephants participating. Its pageantry breaking through several ritualistic offerings is worth-seeing and a quite a gala affair. Next comes the seven day pooram festival in importance, and is celebrated in Meena masam - beginning on the Makaram asterism and ending on the Pooram asterism. 

It is a part of the famous Arattupuza Pooram festival in which as many as one hundred elephants used to participate in the past. It used to be a grand gala affair in the bygone past, but the changed trends changed its pomp and show. Yet rituals are being observed on a modest scale now. During the seven days, every day the procession starting from temple goes to arattu tank for ceremonial bath. It is a grand opportunity to the devotees to offer prayers there. During the days of Zamorins, it enjoyed spectacular glory and commanded unprecedented honour among the temples dedicated to Srirama.      

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