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Time of India
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
CM's wife, VIPs visit Chamundeshwari Temple
1 2 Mysuru: CM's wife, Parvathi, on Friday visited Sri Chamundeshwari Temple atop the Chamundi Hills and offered puja to mark Aashada Friday celebrations. Accompanied by family members, she arrived at the religious site in a car and was at the temple for about 30 minutes. Her supporters kept the media at bay while she was at the religious site. Union minister of state Shobha Karandlaje climbed the 1001 steps to reach the religious site, a ritual she started about two decades ago, and offered puja to goddess Chamundeshwari. Among other VIPs who visited the temple were senior minister KH Muniyappa, former minister HD Revanna, Karnataka BJP unit chief BY Vijayendra, and former DCM KS Eshwarappa. This comes amidst hundreds of thousands of devotees visiting the temple to mark the fourth and final aashadha Friday celebrations. All the rituals associated with the celebrations, headed by the chief priest of the temple, Shashishekhar Dixit, including Mahanyasa Rudrabhishekam, Panchamrutha Abhisheka, Kunkumarchane, Pushparchanse, Sahasranama, and Mahamangalarathi, were conducted for the deity starting from 4am on Friday. Devotees from across the state, who arrived from various parts of the state, were allowed to enter the temple at 5.30am and continued till 10pm. Amid intermittent drizzling, devotees lined up in long queues and had darshan of the goddess. To mark the concluding last Friday celebrations, various organisations across Mysuru city distributed prasada to the devotees in Chamundipuram Circle, Vidyaranyapuram, Agrahara, Vijayanagara, Chamaraja Double Street, Kuvempunagar, Ramakrishnangar, Ontikoppal, KG Koppal, M G Koppal, and several other places. Mysuru city made elaborate arrangements for all crowd management, including bus operations from Lalitha Mahal grounds.
The Hindu
17-07-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Devotional fervour marks Chamundeshwari Vardhanti celebrations
The Chamundeshwari Vardhanti celebration was held amidst devotional fervour with a large number of people taking part in the annual festival at Chamundi Hills on Thursday. There were special rituals and ceremonies to mark the Vardhanti celebrations and the religious rites signalling the commencement of the celebrations, commened at 4 a.m. The processional idol of the deity - Goddess Chamundeshwari – was given a ceremonial bath in the sacred waters followed by other rituals like Panchamrutha Abhisheka, etc. This was followed by Rudrabhisheka, Kumkumarchane or rituals with vermillion, and chanting of the Sahasranama or the 1,000 names of the goddess. After the completion of the rituals, the processional idol was placed in the palanquin amidst religious paraphernalia and was brough out of the temple in a procession. Members of the police band, accompanied by an ensemble of muscians playing 'mangala vadya', accompanied the procession while the presence of ceremonial umbrella and the chamara or the whisk, added to the religious spirit. Mysuru MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, Chamundeshwari MLA G.T. Deve Gowda, Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, and others were present. The district administration had made elaborate arrangements in anticipation of large number of devotees while additional police forces were deployed for security. In a bid to manage traffic and crowding, private vehicles were barred to enter Chamundi Hills and the public had to use the KSRTC buses specially deployed for the purpose. It was a free shuttle introduced by the authorities and transported the devotees from the Lalitha Mahal helipad grounds, to Chamundi Hills and back. Pandals were erected in different parts of the city as special poojas were also organised and prasadam was distributed to the public as part of the Vardhanti celebrations.
Deccan Herald
27-06-2025
- General
- Deccan Herald
First Ashada Friday: Over one lakh devotees visit Chamundi Hill
Mysuru: Neither the long wait, up to six hours, nor the rush inside the temple deterred the spirits of over a lakh devotees, who thronged Chamundi Hill in Mysuru to have darshan of Goddess Sri Chamundeshwari Devi. The deity wore a red saree in Lakshmi Alankaara on the occasion of first Friday of Ashada month of the Hindu temple was decorated for the celebrations with colourful chrysanthymum flowers."Special puja, including Mahaanyasaka Poorvaka Rudrabhisheka, and Panchamrutha Abhisheka, were offered to the Goddess from as early as 3.30 am to 5.30 am. The devotees were allowed to have darshana from 5.30 am to 10 pm," temple chief priest N Shashishekara Dixith of a national movement to restore peace, harmony being sown in every year, while the entry of private vehicles to the hill was banned, a large number of vehicles were seen parked on the ground near the Lalitha Mahal Palace. The tickets for darshana were sold at the parking area itself and the devotees were segregated and streamlined in separate free buses of the KSRTC. Hence, the chaos at the hill was slightly minimised.. According to KSRTC urban DC H T Veeresh, 45 buses were arranged from the city bus stand. "They made 160 trips up to 5 pm. 45 free buses were arranged, including for men, from the ground near Lalitha Mahal Palace. They also made 160 trips. Those who bought Rs 2,000 tickets were taken in eight Volvo buses, which made 58 trips. For those who bought Rs 300 tickets, 25 buses made 91 trips."For those in the general darshana queue, it took at least six hours, while for those with Rs 300 ticket, it took about three hours. There was chaos at the edge as the queues merged with those who came in the general queue near the temple. For those with Rs 2,000 ticket, it took about half an hour to have darshan. Shashikala from Yaraganahalli said, "Although I rushed near the steps at 2 am, we were allowed to climb only from 3 am. I managed to have darshan only by 11.45 am."Shobha from Alanahalli said, "We stood in a general queue from 6 am and had darshan only by 1.30 pm."The District Administration, led by DC G Lakshmikanth Reddy, and Sri Chamundeshwari Kshetra Development Authority Secretary M J Roopa had made elaborate arrangements for the darshana, with barricaded queues. More than 1,000 police personnel, led by Commissioner Seema Latkar, DCPs M Mutthuraj and K S Sunderraj, two SPs, more than 300 home guards, more than 300 volunteers, including Scouts, Guides, NSS, and NCC cadets managed the devotees. The Health department had arranged ambulances. Drinking water and toilet facilities were also available. Roopa said, "By 5 pm, more than 80,000 kumkum packets, 1,200 litre of badam milk, 50,000 packs of dry fruits and madilakki were distributed. For those with Rs 2,000 ticket, a statue, one laddu prasada, 500 ml glass water bottle and a bag was provided. While prasada was arranged for the first time by the temple authority, more than 50,000 devotees were served with peas pulav and curd rice."Admitting that chaos prevailed for the darshana, Roopa said, "We will streamline the queues by next Friday."According to temple chief priest, it is auspicious to worship 'Shakthi Devatha' in Aashada maasa. "It is believed that by worshipping Sri Chamundeshwari Devi during Aashada month, one would reap the blessings equivalent to worshipping the Goddess for the entire year," he like MLAs G T Devegowda, P M Narendraswamy, H D Revanna and his son and MLC Suraj Revanna visited the temple.
