The return procession began from Turner’s Choultry on Main Road and proceeded to the Sri Jagannatha Swamy Temple on Town Kotta Road amid Vedic chanting, traditional music, drum beats, and fireworks
Eight years ago, a majority judgment of September 2018 had rejected ‘Ayyappans’ as a religious denomination and dismissed prohibition on women aged between 10 and 50 years from entering the Sabarimala temple as an essential religious practice
The Prambanan Temple is significant in Indonesia’s Hinduism, highlighting its evolution under state-mandated monotheism and religious freedom
Holy water was sprinkled atop the ‘gopurams’ between 5.45 a.m. and 6.30 a.m.