5. Maavilakku. Maavilakku is one of the more sacred festive foods - an edible lamp made with rice flour, jaggery, cardamom, dry ginger and ghee. Shaped like a lamp and lit with a cotton wick, it is ...

Maavilakku. In the auspicious month of Karthik, lamps made with kozhukattai maavu – a dough made of rice flour and jaggery, are shaped by hand to make a dent in the centre, in which oil is poured to ...

People pray to Him, specially on the Saturdays falling in this month, wherein a maavilakku, made of edible flour and honey, is shaped like a mountain and a lamp is lit atop.

Maavilakku Mavu is an auspicious rice flour lamp made with rice flour and jaggery. It is prepared especially on Tuesdays and Fridays in Aadi. Tamil Nadu’s Pudukkottai district is home to the wine ...

The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Department has expedited the work on the renovation of Samayapuram Sri Mariamman temple near here with an eye on performing “kumbabhishekam” soon ...

Location- Sri Renganathar Temple, Jalan Ikram-Uniten, Kawasan Institusi Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor. Hours- 7.00 am – 9.00 pm. Devotees of Lord Venkateswara perform Purattasi Vrat during Purattasi.

VILLUPURAM: Two devotees were charred to death and 27 others sustained burns when fireworks exploded during a temple festival in Villupuram district on Tuesday night.

Inquiries revealed that negligence on the part of the representatives of the temple trust caused the accident. The devotees were carrying lighted lamps (Maavilakku) on Tuesday night as part of a ...