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Nerthikadan Dolls begins arriving for Chithirai Pongal

27-04-2015
27th April 2015

Nerthikadan Dolls begins arriving for Chithirai Pongal

Netrikadan dolls (pommai) made of sand and clay, starts arriving Sivakasi town. As Nerthikadan some devotees carried hand, leg, baby dolls made of sand and clay, Ayiramkan paanai and Agni Chatti and offered to Goddess Pathirakaliamman, for Chithirai Pongal Festival. Many of them can be seen displaying their colourful dolls, muthus and pots. In Sivakasi, clay doll price ranges from Rs.60/- and price of agni chatti / aayiramkan paanai is Rs.100/-, and one packet Muthu is Rs.20/-. Some devotees began to offer the dolls to amman from yesterday onwards. It is expected that the sale of dolls and pots will be doubled during pongal and kayirukuthu festival.


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