Teppotsava

        Teppotsava popurlarly called as float festival in temples.The famous temples in South india which celebrates teppotsava are situated in Mylapore,Triplicane, Thiruvidaimarathur and Kumbakonam.

Each temple has a particular day in the year to celebrate the teppotsava.

Significance : It is the grace of God which helps the human beings to cross the sea of sansara and reach the heaven presented in a symbolic form, a grand display of lights and colours, the float festival is on water.

The float is made of number of mud pots of uniform size tied by bamboo poles, along the edges and rows called a paristal.

Applications: The air space in the inverted pots builds up pressure due to weight of the material and mounted on the paristol and thrust of water underneath the pots.The bolted up air in the pots buoy up the float for the duration of the festival accordingly.

The deities are decorated beautifully, placed in decorated vimanas surrounded by the priest offering puja, nadesvara orchestra and men with their instruments could be seen.

Veda brahmins, devara oduvars and important persons accompany them.The load of the float may total upto 4 tons.All the time the nadasvara would be playing with chanting of vedas by brahmins.The float will look like an electrified lustrous hall with all the accompaniments of people and music floating on water.

It is marvellous sight to enjoy and register the beauty in memory, the whole year as it is marked as a day of joy and significance.At every corner, the float will go near the bank, worshippers will bring their offerings of flowers, coconut, karpura(camphor) aradana take blessings and depart.

It is almost day break when the float returns to its destination.Fire works lend sound and jubliance to the occassion.