{"id":16673,"date":"2019-12-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/12\/14\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-devotees-witness-lighting-of-huge-karthigai-lamp-at-tiruvannamalai\/"},"modified":"2019-12-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T12:00:00","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-of-devotees-witness-lighting-of-huge-karthigai-lamp-at-tiruvannamalai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/12\/14\/hundreds-of-thousands-of-devotees-witness-lighting-of-huge-karthigai-lamp-at-tiruvannamalai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Thousands of Devotees Witness Lighting of Huge Karthigai Lamp at Tiruvannamalai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/lakhs-of-devotees-witness-lighting-of-karthigai-deepam-at-tiruvannamalai\/article30270483.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/o4eeal\/article30270482.ece\/ALTERNATES\/FREE_660\/TH11KARTHIGAI-DEEPAM\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>TIRUVANNAMALAI, INDIA, December 10, 2019 (The Hindu): Hundreds of thousands of devotees thronged Tiruvannamalai to witness the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam on Tuesday. As the clock struck 6 p.m., the fire was lit by devotees in the more than five-foot-tall Kopparai (cauldron or vessel used for lighting) filled with ghee and camphor, atop the 2,668-foot-high hill. The District Administration has restricted the passes to climb the Annamalai hill to 2,500 persons as per a court order issued a few years ago. The dark side of the Annamalai glowed like a ball of fire as thousands of devotees cheered in absolute devotion, Annaimalaiyanukku Harohara.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-day Brahmotsavam of Sri Arunchaleswarar Temple began on December 1 with the hoisting of the flag. On Tuesday, the day began with a puja followed by lighting of Bharani Deepam at the temple at 4 a.m. According to official estimates, 4,000 to 5,000 people were allowed inside the temple for Bharani Deepam. Prior to the lighting of the Maha Deepam, a statue of Vinayakar was taken out in a procession followed by those of Muruga, Arunachaleswarar, Unnamulaiamman, Chandikeswarar and Ardhanareeswarar. The Maha Deepam was lit at 6 p.m. It will be kept alive for 11 days, with the help of 925 gallons of ghee and a thread made of a 1,095-yard cloth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TIRUVANNAMALAI, INDIA, December 10, 2019 (The Hindu): Hundreds of thousands of devotees thronged Tiruvannamalai to witness the lighting of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}