The rhyme and rhythm of (palliyodams) snake boats have once again started reverberating across the quaint banks of the Pampa as the season of Vallasadya, a unique ritualistic feast attached to the Onam festivities at the Aranmula Sree Parthasarathy temple, took off to a start here on Sunday.
Hundreds of devotees thronged the temple here to attend the event, which is being celebrated in full fervour for the second consecutive year after a pandemic-induced hiatus. The oarsmen of 10 palliyodams reached the temple ghats in their boats by the morning and were accorded a rousing reception.
As per the tradition, the boat crew were presented with betel leaves, areca nuts, and tobacco, and escorted to the temple premises. The oarsmen circumambulated the temple rendering verses of the Vanchippattu (boat song) in praise of Lord Krishna.
