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Bangalore Karaga 2012

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| Published: Monday, April 9, 2012, 14:39 [IST]

Bangalore Karaga One of the oldest festivals celebrated in the heart of Bangalore. Bangalore Karaga is primarily a well-known tradition of Thigala community in southern Karnataka. The Karaga festival is generally led by the men of the community.

Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj

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Participants in the karaga bear the deity on their head without touching by hand and moving around.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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It is believed that the goddess Adishakthi Draupadi will come down from heaven to earth and stay for three days with the community.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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he karaga is expertly balanced on the carrier's head. The carrier, in his temporary avatar as Draupadi, goes to the houses of the veerakumaras where their families perform pooja to the karaga.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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Then the object is brought back to the Dharmaraya Swamy Temple and placed next to the Dharmaraya Swamy Temple and placed next to the idol of Dharma. At this point it becomes the Karaga.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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Legend has it that Karaga carrier while in deep meditation in the waist deep water in the pond suddenly feels a weight on his head. Holding the object like he would a baby, he goes to the Sampangi tank. Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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The karaga itself is a tall floral pyramid that is balanced on the carrier's head. The karaga leaves the temple around midnight. The goddess is brought for the darshan of the devotees from the temple on the head of the karaga-bearer.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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Traditionally, the festivities begin with the recitation of mantras (incantations) and the hoisting of a ceremonial flag on the banks of Bangalore’s Sampangi tank. On the seventh day Hasi-Karaga (tender Karaga) is brought from a salt water pond near the Dharmaraya Swamy Temple.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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It is on this day that the Kumbha or the holy pot, called the "Hasi Karaga," is made from the sediment of the Sampangi Tank. Later in the night, the Karaga is installed in a mantapa on the banks of the tank.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
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Karaga commences with the flag-hoisting ceremony on the night of Saptami, the seventh day of the bright half of Chaitra, the first month in the Hindu calendar.Photos by: Manjunath Gopiraj
 
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