"Onavillu" is a ceremonial offering dedicated to Lord Sree Padmanabha as part of a three-century-old tradition.
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram and making of Onavillu.
The famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram will present “Onavillu”, a traditional ceremonial bow, to the Lord Ram Temple in Ayodhya to mark the occasion of its consecration on 22 January.
The bow is presented as a gift to the Lord Ram Temple.
The temple’s Tantri and its administrative panel members would hand over the Onavillu to the Shri Ram Teerth Kshetra Trust representatives at a function to be held at the eastern entrance of the shrine on Thursday, 18 January, the executive officer of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Onavillu is a ceremonial offering dedicated to Lord Sree Padmanabha as part of a three-century-old tradition.
The members of a traditional family in Thiruvananthapuram make an artistic offering at the Lord Padmanabha Temple on the auspicious “Thiruvonam” day every year.
“The ceremonial bow is presented to the Ayodhya Temple on behalf of the devotees of Lord Padmanabha,” a temple official told PTI.
It would be taken to Ayodhya on a flight from Kochi, he said.
Arrangements will be made for devotees to catch a glimpse of the auspicious bow on the shrine premises tomorrow. They would also get to circumnutate the temple, carrying the ceremonial bow later, the official said.
Considered sacred by devotees, the “villu” is generally a bow-shaped wooden panel with paintings on both sides with themes like ‘Ananthasayanam’, the mythical serpent Aanantha, ‘Dashavataram’, incarnations of Lord Vishnu, Sreerama Pattabhishekam, anointing of Lord Rama as King and so on.
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