Thiruvtsavam at Thiruvambady temple, Thrissur

The Thiruvambadi temple at Shornur road in Thrissur,  Kerala is one of the main temples participating in Thrissur pooram festival. The main deity of the temple temple is Lord Sree Krishna with equally important Godess Bhagavathy worshipped in a shrine to the left of Lord Krishna. The other sub deities of the temple include Lord Ganesha and Dharmasastha.

Thiruvambadi temple is celebrating the 8-day festival called Thiruutsavam from 12 to 19 March 2014. The festival is conducted every year in the Malayalam month of Kumbham in Pooyam aster. The festival begins with kodiyettam and end up with aarattu on the final day.

This year, on 12^th March 2014 there will be kodiyettam in the evening. Many other cultural programmes are conducted during these days in the temple.  Some of them are Chakyarkoothu (Sanskrit dance drama), Thayambaka (using percussion instruments), Kathakali (the traditional classical dance of Kerala) and other classical dance programmes. On 18^th and 19^th , the last two days of the festival, there will be rituals like ‘Palli Nayattu’ (the holy hunting of God), ‘Palliunarthal’ (rising up of the God from sleep),’kodiyirekkal’ (setting down the festive flag) and ‘aarattu’(the holy bath). There will be processions by caparisoned elephants for all the ritual and tantric events.