Mysuru: Thousands of devotees drawn from Mysuru and parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh had the darshan of Mysuru’s presiding deity Goddess Sri Chamundeshwari this morning on Sri Chamundeshwari Vardhanti Mahotsava.
Vardhanti, or the birthday of the Goddess was celebrated today, the saptami day or Krishna paksha, in Ashada, commemorating the day on which the idol of the Goddess was installed and consecrated in the 1820s by Mummadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. History says that Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar presented a ‘Simha-Vahana’ (lion-shaped vehicle) and other jewels.
