Two-month-long Sabarimala festival begins

Sabarimala: The two-month-long festival season at the famed Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple in Kerala kicked off on Friday with the opening of the temple doors at 5 p.m amidst unprecedented security and new guidelines from the police for the pilgrims. The new season would take a three-day break on December 27 and the temple doors would be closed on January 20. The sanctum santorum of the temple was opened on Friday after the customary pujas performed by the temple tantri and chief priests. The Pathanamthitta district administration has now clamped prohibitory orders in and around the temple town for seven days. (IANS)

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