Tiruppavai Festival in December



Icon of Andal in the Baysview Temple, Toronto. November, 2002.




School girls enact the poet-saint Andal's love for Vishnu during the Tiruppavai Festival. Chennai, December 1995.


















Kothai ("bouquet of flowers") is another name for Andal.
This vanity license plate adorns a car which belongs to a
person who hails from Sri Villiputtur, the birth place of Andal.
Photo taken in the car park of the Hindu Temple of Atlanta, c.2002.


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