Two weeks back we traveled to
Kumbakonam and Ariyalur, on the behalf of my parent’s desire to take dip in Mahamahamkulam (tank) on the occasion of Mahamaham – a Hindu festival celebrated every
12 years in the Mahamaham tank located in the heart of the south Indian temple
town Kumanbakonam. Though it was a brief visit to both the towns, I enjoyed the
moment of being travelled together as families (along with my uncle’s family)
and staying at a place overnight. Actually it was my father who wanted to go to
Mahamham and we didn’t like him let go alone so decide to go ahead as a family
and planned the trip in a very short time.
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We took my uncle’s car rather
taking our own. Being planned in a time of short span, our car was not ready
for a long drive and we were 8 of us travelled in an Innova placing the
wheelchair, tightly fixed into boot and couple of bags on lap and between
legroom’s. We plan to start our trip at 10 am but were late by 2 hours and had
lunch in a restaurant before Mathuranthagam. Named as Balaji Bhavan, has
abundance space around the restaurant and parking lot with shelters, gave me a
feel of entered a drive-in hotel. Others went in and had their meals and I
settle for sambar satham (rice) that was served at car and the taste was
somehow enough to eat.
But what I liked more was the
frontage of an abandon park at the rear of the restaurant. As we enter the
restaurant, and drive to the parking, I find a traffic police standing in dark
and light blue uniform with a sign of stop and the other hand of salute. At
glance anyone would think him a real traffic police man, but it was a statue
with exact replica. Following him, there were some women statues representing the different traditional
attires of India. In enriched saris and
north Indian salwar, the statues where showy under glowing hot sunshine. But
the only woman stature wearing a hat and pinkish gown wasn’t definable.
Although I feel the attire resembles Goan style or European tradition.
Beyond that there was something
to attract me and more in numbers… but I’m postponing it to next post.
11 comments:
Very beautiful traditional statues, Jeevan!
What a great share - I enjoyed the saluting policeman also :)
Have a Happy Week!!
Peace :)
Lovely statues...
The policeman looks so interesting and different ;) Nice pics, others too. I have not been to Kumbakonam yet - hope to go there sometime soon.
Destination Infinity
Hello, wonderful collection of statues and photo. Have a happy day!
Wonderful statues!
Very interesting and unique statues.
lovely statues!
I always liked to see the Hindu statues at the temples in my country. They are often realistic, colourful and attractive.
Wow! Cool collection.
How was the crowd in Kumbakonam!?
These statues look interesting!
Loco Mente - We went to Kumbakonam 3 days ahead to the Mahamaham day, so it wasn’t much crowded. I stayed at the car in the parking lot about 800meters from tank and only the family members went to take dip in the Mahamaham tank.
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