Dasara Elephant
As I mentioned earlier, viewing the procession is a complete experience and photos alone doesn’t justify the scale or grandness of the extravaganza – keeping this in mind I present some of the most colourful and memorable moments from the procession. And from my limited knowledge I have tried identifying the various performing groups. Feel free to correct and add comments.
Tiger Dance
The two big walking dolls are symbolic of the Dasara procession and I have not seen a procession without them!
A Tibetan flute troupe holding the sign board – “Thank you India, 50 yrs Tibetans in Exile”. Btw, Karnataka has the second highest Tibetan population in India, only next to Himachal Pradesh!
Human wheel in motion!
B.G.S. Veeragase Nrityatand – Sri Adichunchanagiri Mahasansthan Mutt, Mandya
Just imagine the effort required to drum along like this for another 5 kms!!
The Black (and jolly) Men
Lambadi Women
Every section of society participates in the procession, that’s the beauty of it.
… and finally the 46 yr old Elephant Balarama carrying for the fourth consecutive year the statue of Goddess Chamundeshwari in the golden howdah, weighing all of 800 kg!
Here, we can see that Balarama is flanked by two female Elephants, Sarala and Mary.
With the passing of Balarama carrying the sacred statue of Goddess Chamundi, the procession ends. I waited for the exodus of people to pass, meanwhile noticed a curious thing – few people were smearing their feet with Elephant dung lying around, reporting this to my mom revealed that this is supposed to be auspicious. No wonder!
Date: 28th September 2009
Place: Mysore Palace Grounds
10 Comments
Anonymous · 29 Dec ’09 at 2:04 am
>Awesome pics! Loved the collection
Aditi
Shalini Surendran · 29 Dec ’09 at 4:47 am
>Absolutely stunning…!!!
Loved the feel of the pictures, the frames and color combos!
Loved it! 🙂
Cheers!
S M Rana · 29 Dec ’09 at 4:53 am
>Gorgeous!
anoop · 29 Dec ’09 at 5:57 am
>Aditi and Rana: thanks for dropping by and commenting.
Shalini: the real thing is in no way close to the pics, its much much better! 🙂
Shiju Sugunan · 29 Dec ’09 at 6:57 am
>wow! the events are captured so well.
Thanks for sharing.
Sarah · 29 Dec ’09 at 7:25 am
>Amazing pics!!! Love the colours!!! Felt like I had actually been there and seen it 🙂
Rohini Kamath · 30 Dec ’09 at 8:49 am
>gorgeous pics!
I esp liked the one of the ladies dancing. Such a glorious combo of colours.
wandering soul · 31 Dec ’09 at 4:18 am
>Beautiful Colors! totally brings out the festive mood. The ladies dancing pic and the one with Shiva dancing in orange and green are the best!
P.S – I made it to Dudhsagar this December. It was not nearly as full as when you went.. but it was good nevertheless.. 🙂
anoop · 31 Dec ’09 at 6:13 am
>shiju: thanks.
sarah and rohini: thanks. you can come over to mysore for viewing the procession next year, then you will appreciate the awesomeness of the real thing. and yes, I will be your gracious host 🙂
wandering soul: thanks. I read your blog posts, totally awesome! I just love combining cycling with travel.
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