Inside too, it was difficult to separate the lovely dance-carved pillars from the grime, plastic litter and the week's unswept pooja debris. |
The pooja was performed and Sivaji's wife Kamalamma put kungumam on his forehead. |
The stones and jewels used in these paintings would have an added impact with the light from pooja lamps falling on them. |
On the night of the Shyama pooja which occurs about the middle of November, this picture is brought out and worshipped. |
I follow her down the staircase into the garden for the tulsi pooja, incessantly ringing the bell in my hand. |
Hundreds of men, women and children participated in the yajna, performed pooja and offered prayers to Lord Indra to seek rain showers. |