The Second Tuesday (April 09, 2013) of the Hindu month of
Chaitra passed off peacefully at Maa Tara Tarini Hill Shrine near Berhampur in
Odisha. With the chanting
of traditional Mantras on the midnight of Monday the festivals of the holy
Tuesday started. The priests performed
the Snana, Majana and Maha Arati of the Goddesses at the midnight. After these
traditional ceremonies the sanctum sanctorum of the Shrine, considered as the
Sthana Pitha (Breast Shrine) of Adi Shakti, was thrown open for Darshan of devotees
at 2 am in the morning.
During the Maha Arati festival at
the midnight around 30 thousand devotees were present in the hill shrine. Mr. Satyabrata Sahu, IAS
Commissioner-cum-Secretary of Fisheries & ARD Department Government of
Odisha including many other senior officials of the State Government, district
administration, office bearers of TTDB and Tara Tarini temple administration
were present during this occasion.
The Second Tuesday of this holy
Chaitra month saw footfall of around 2 to 3 lakh devotees in the hill Shrine
starting from the wee hours till late evening. Devotees waited in long queues
to take a glimpse of Adi Shakti Tara Tarini and offer prayers at the temple on
the hill-top. People from every nook and corner of Odisha and far off places of
the country and outside were present on the occasion. On this occasion more
than ten thousand kids tonsured their heads as per the age-old tradition of
offering hair of newborns after the first birthday at the Shrine for a blissful
life.
TTDB arranged Khichdi Prasad of
Maa Tara Tarini besides safe drinking water was distributed to the devotees. As
per the tradition around 3000 groups from different parts of the State cooked
their food as an offering to the goddesses in the orchards at the foothill and
had a day of picnic at the Shrine.
Heavy police deployment was made
by the local administration to avert any untoward incident and control the
large number of people gathered for the fair. The district administration made
arrangements to control traffic in and around the shrine.
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