Day 2 of #100Sareepact ...it is going to be puffed up face for next 10 days, but this is only about the sarees and not me. This is a 10 yard silk cotton from Savi Mami's....inaugurated today in celebration of Varadar Utsavam Dwajarohanam. Yet to get perfect drape, but managing. Varadaraja Perumal Temple at Kanchi, one of the important shrines for Sri Vaishnavas referred to as Perumal Koil is famous for its Brahmotsavam, the annual 10-day festival. The Vaikasi utsavam here is so significant for the Lord’s avatar in the city is in Brahma’s yagnya and so when Brahma himself descends on the earth for 10-days to celebrate the festival.

“He has come
Merciful Perumal of Elephant Hill
He has come 
Perumal 
To be seen before our very eyes in the city of Kanci”

(Trasnslation from Meiviradamanmiyam of Swami Vedanta Desika from Steven Paul Hopkins’ ‘Singing the Body of God’)

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