Aadi Pooram 2011
Posted on: 01/Aug/2011 11:46:47 PM
Adi Pooram is celebrated in all Hindu temples in southern India in the month called Adi or Ashadha, corresponding to the English months of July-August, when the asterism Pooram (Delta Leonis) is in the ascendancy.
The festival is observed to propitiate the goddess Sakti Devi who is said to have come into this world on this occasion to bless the people.
The auspicious Aadi Pooram festival falls on today(August 2, 2011). It marks the appearance of the devotee-par-excellence Aandaal on earth (it was on this day when Shri Vishnu chittar - later hailed as Periyaazhwaar - found Aandal as a child when he was plucking flowers for daily pooja).
