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The oldest festival of Tamil Nadu and South India, Karthigai Deepam has been talked about and referred to in lots of ancient works of Tamil literature for instance 'Tolkappiyam' that dates back again to two,000 or 2,500 BC, 'Jeevakachintamani', an epic authored by Jain poet, Thiruthakka Thevar, within the Sangam interval, 'Karnarpadu', 'Kalavazhi Narpadu' dating around one,000 BC and 'Pazhamozhi'.

It falls inside the month of Karthigai when the star Krithigai is within the ascendant based on the Tamil Calendar on a complete moon day. It is actually thought that Lord Muruga, the divine mild of Lord Shiva, took his kind during this thirty day period.

The ten-days festival is also called 'the Festival of Lights' and it is mentioned to be the extension in the Deepavali festival of India. In a few communities, folks maintain doubling the quantity of lamps every day in the day of Deepavali until Karthigai Deepam and therefore the burning lamps current an enchanting spectacle in the course of the evening.

Individuals thoroughly clean their homes and embellish them with 'Kolam' patterns on the festive occasion. It's only right after the 'Deeparathana' (worship ritual) which the lamps are moved to all the parts from the house and lit to produce the dreamy look that enchants every person. During this festival, persons also flock for the Annamali Hills (therefore it also known as Annamalai Deepam) to worship the Bharani Deepam, the huge lamp that is lit early in the morning on the last day of your festival inside the sanctum sanctorum of your shrine.

It is stated the flame from the lame does not flicker on this day and reveals the form of Lord Muruga, reaching up to the sky. The Deepam basically a colossal circular metal vessel with a capability to carry about two,000 litres of ghee, a top of five and half ft and diameter of 5 ft. The wick in the lamp by itself is made up of 30m of 'Ghada' cloth burnt working with 2 kilos of camphor. It is claimed that about the evening of 'Karthigai Pournami', when the lamp is lit it is often seen throughout an location of 35km about the shrine