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SUMMARY:Sasthamcottah Panchavadyam
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Sasthamkotta Dharma Sastha Temple\, Sasthamcottah\, Kollam\, Keral
 a\, 690521
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URL:https://app.eventifyplus.com/event/sasthamcottah-panchavadyam
DESCRIPTION:Panchavadyam at Sree Dharma Sastha Temple\, Sasthamkotta\, repr
 esents one of Kerala’s distinctive temple-music traditions in the settin
 g of an important Ayyappa shrine beside Sasthamkotta Lake. Panchavadyam\, 
 literally an ensemble of five instruments\, is a traditional Kerala temple
  orchestra comprising thimila\, maddalam\, ilathalam\, edakka and kombu. K
 erala Tourism describes it as a regular accompaniment to temple festivals\
 , religious ceremonies and processions\, with a characteristic rhythmic st
 ructure in which the tempo progressively increases and the performance bui
 lds towards an energetic climax. At Sasthamkotta\, such traditional percus
 sion performances are associated with temple festivals and ceremonial occa
 sions rather than constituting a separate annual festival under the name 
 “Sasthamkotta Panchavadyam”. The Sree Dharma Sastha Temple is one of K
 erala’s important ancient Sastha temples and is dedicated to Lord Ayyapp
 a. Its setting is particularly distinctive: the shrine stands beside Sasth
 amkotta Lake\, Kerala’s largest freshwater lake and a Ramsar-listed wetl
 and\, while the temple precinct is known for the presence of monkeys tradi
 tionally associated with the shrine. The temple’s principal annual festi
 val is a ten-day Utsavam held in the Malayalam month of Kumbham\, generall
 y falling in February or March. The festival features temple rituals\, pro
 cessions and Kettukazhcha\, with decorated elephants and traditional art f
 orms forming part of the celebrations. Panchavadyam can…\n\nEvent page: 
 https://app.eventifyplus.com/event/sasthamcottah-panchavadyam
CATEGORIES:Music
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