Devotees throng temples on New Year Day
Mysuru: Thousands of devotees and tourists flocked popular temples across Mysuru to seek blessings of the presiding deities on day one of New Year-2025. Devotees began queuing up as early as 6 am near Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple for the first darshan of the deity.
The temple authorities organised separate queues for women, men, senior citizens, and specially-abled devotees to facilitate entry. As announced, the temple distributed laddus and puliyogare to devotees. Long queues stretched up to a kilometre from the temple premises, with devotees patiently waiting to reach the sanctum sanctorum.
Sri Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple distributed 35,000 laddus to devotees by noon, with plans to distribute a total of two lakh laddus by evening.
Earlier, puja rituals commenced at 4.30 am with Thomale Seve, followed by Swarnapushpa Sahasranama and a procession of Utsavamurthy around the temple premises.
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