Five-day ‘Ekadasa Rudra Yagam’ begins

It is being held at the Siva temple in Srikalahasti

HOLY RITUAL: Priests performing the ‘Ekadasa Rudra Yagam’ at the Siva temple in Srikalahasti on Thursday.

TIRUPATI: The five-day ‘Ekadasa Rudra Yagam’ got underway at the famous Siva temple at Srikalahasti near here.

Temple sources said the special ritual was being performed to mark the holy ‘Rudra Ekadasi’ observed on Thursday in all the famous Saiva Kshethras in the country. Apart from the priests belonging to the temple, another two dozen pundits specially brought from Tamil Nadu also participated in the six-hour ritual performed amid the chanting of the ‘Eleven Rudras’. Similar ‘homams’ would be performed both morning and the evening all the five days before elaborate ritual concludes on Monday with ‘Poornahuthi’.

The priests also performed simultaneously ‘Shatha Chandi Yagam’ along with ‘Rudra Yagam’.