Mangaluru, Dec 9: The five-day Laksha Deepotsava celebrations in pilgrim Centre Dharmasthala will commence from tomorrow against the backdrop of Covid threat forcing the authorities to limit the number of devotees.
According to Dharmadikari D Veerendra Heggade, Pattadhikari of Dharmasthala, the 88th sarva dharma and sahitya sammelana, organized on the occasion, will be held on December 13 and December 14, respectively.
Minister for Housing V Somanna will inaugurate the sarva dharma sammelana on Sunday at 5.30 p.m. Keshava Malagi, teacher and story writer, will deliver a lecture at the sammelana. Bhuvanakeerthi Bhattaraka, the seer of Jain Mutt, Kanakagiri and Chethan Lobo, Public Relations Officer, Bishop’s House will participate. It will be followed by a saxophone recital by R Manjunath from Bengaluru.
Scholar S Ranganath from Bengaluru will inaugurate the sahitya sammelana on Monday. Writers Narahalli Balasubrahmanya, Pundikai Ganapathi Bhat and Jyothi Shankar will speak.
Later there will be a nritya roopaka titled ‘Narasimha’ by the artistes of Nritya Nitekana Kodavoor, Udupi.
The Hosakatte utsava will be held on Thursday. There will be Kerekatte utsava on Friday. It will be followed by Lalitodyana utsava on Saturday and Kachimarukatte utsava on Sunday.
The Lakshadeepotsava celebrations will end with Gowri Marukatte utsava on Monday. The Samavasarana pooja of Lord Chandranatha Swamy will be performed on December 15.
The celebrations can be viewed live through social media like in YouTube and Facebook, according to a release.
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