Ayyavazhi festivals
festival celebration play important role socioreligious universe ayyavazhi festival common pathis nizhal thangals confined pathis swamithope pathi every day celebrated festival name nitham thirunal normally festival celebrated grandly swamithope worship center ayyavazhi lm report witness festival nitham thirunal likely celebrated swamithope pathi celebration includes daily ritual connected panividais worship swamithope usually palliyarai opened worship daily sound blowing conch bell following panividaiyalar used circumambulate pathi first santhanaveethi first circumambulating route rathaveethi second circumambulating route around palliyarai sanctum sanctorum closed around opened morning panividai elunetru carried vahana around pathi two circumambulating route vahana reach vadakku vasal northern entrance santhanaveethi dharmamani rung thavanai pal holy rice gruel given worshipper vahana bavani come end elunetru taken back palliyarai umbrella nithiya pal holy rice gruel worshipper part noonfest east entrance main entrance opened noonprayer ucchippadippu sung payyans followed worshipper end smearing thirunamam worshipper santhanapal sandalmilk offered worshipper followed offering thavanai pal vadakku vasal evening celebration morning difference instead thavanai pal rice gruel umban annam rice cooked vegetable together vadakku vasal ukappadippu sung morning evening fests ucchippadippu nool festival vahanabavani conducted morning evening palliyarai opened common mass worship three time day closed around pm akilam admits celebrating every day festival evil kali would destroy mostly ayyavazhi worship center conduct weekly festival sunday occupy important place pathis including swamithope mutta pathi conduct special celebration sunday weekly ambala pathi tuesday considered holy since divine marriage vaikundar seven deity took place practise right time vaikundar apart nizhal thangals conduct special panividais friday others select thursday day weekly festival muthal kizhamai festival celebrated swamithope first sunday every tamil month nizhal thangals conduct festival sunday first friday tamil month special anna dharmams done muthal kizhamais kodiyettru thirunal common pathis nowadays many nizhal thangals also started conducting festival view pathis conduct kodiyetru thirunal even argue worship center right conduct festival swamithope pathi swamithope pathi three festival celebrated annually tamil month avani thai masi fest includes eleven day pathis conduct year festival start kodiyetruflag hoisting usually seven day picchai ritual practice begging behalf human being god performed starting first day festival festival day special panivadais performed eighth day anna dharmam considered great importance day elunetru carried different vahanas around pathis usual three panividaispooja conducted eighth day considered kalivettai day hunting kali eleventh day car festival festival come end early morning twelfth day ayyavazhi festival common free conducted worship center normally conducted seventeen day normally begin friday end sunday swamithope pathi thiru eadu vasippu begin last friday tamil month karthigai conducted seventeen day day content akilam sung melodiously content akilam parted seventeen continued successive part previous day every day vasippu begun kappu normally fifteenth day thrikkalyanavasippu seventeenth day pattabhishegavasippu considered high religious importance almost pathis nizhal thangals conduct festival year seventeen day schedule thangals conduct three day five day seven day ten day etc generally festival conducted pathis nizhal thangals tamil month karthigai since conducted swamithope day incarnational day vaikundar sea tiruchendur largest festival ayyavazhi festival celebrated worship center simultaneously celebrated th day tamil month masi celebration swamithope day considered highly sacred nationwide ayyavazhi follower usually take pilgrimage swamithope pancha pathis day several procession held many part country apart great procession indicating incarnation vaikundar day official holiday southern district tamil nadu kanyakumari thoothukudi tirunelveli fact ayyavazhi festival celebrated according solar calendar ayyavazhi ritual ayyavazhi holy site ayyavazhi scripture ayya vaikunda avataram g patrick religion subaltern agency university madras krishnanathan ayya vaikundarin vazhvum sinthanaiyum thinai publication r shunmugam nadar kulathil narayanar avatharam nadar kulatheebam publication