Lakshadeepam at Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple:-
This event of decorating the temple with lights is held once in six years as the culminating ritual of Murajapam, a 56 day- long chanting of sacred verses.
On this day, the images of Lord Padmanabha, Lord Narasimha and Lord Krishna are taken out on Garudavahana (the mythological eagle which is the vehicle of Lord Vishnu) in a grand procession.
The Shree Padmanabha temple and its majestic structure gets decked out with one hundred thousand lights (lakshadeepam),
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