Rishi Panchami - day of mystics

Thirumoolar refers to the five sensory faculties as five milch cows - paal pashu ainthu.

And Sancara refers to them as deer, that pursue desert mirages.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati,  Kanchi

Wishnu pati punya caala

Imagery of Wishnu is often associated with a mace, conch, blooming lotus and a whirling discuss.

Mace is metaphor for Sath , which is truth or presence.
Conch is metaphor for Chith, which is consciousness, knowing.
Lotus is metaphor for Ananda, which is joy, bliss, being ecstatic like a beaming jewel.

The discuss is metaphor for Wyapak or omniscience.

- Amrit Warsha,  Jan 02, 2019

( 17 August 2019,  12.55 pm. - IST : Sun at Regulus, cusp of sidereal Leo )

day of walentine

Samayam ide ra ra na sami tamasincakura 
Kamala vairicaludencina 

It is time appropriate
make haste O Lord
arrive before the third quarter moon rises - and illumines the horizon

Javali  
melody:  Behag 

Archavatars - energised idols

The deity, Chamunda or Charchika, garlanded by skulls, sits on a corpse flanked by a jackal and an owl.

The main deity is surrounded by allied deities in niches, framed by pilasters.

The figure on the north wall rises from the ground, having filled his skull-cup with blood of a person - whose severed head lies on the right.

On the pedestal is an offering of 2 more heads on a tray, upon a tripod.

The tripod is flanked by a jackal feasting on the decapitated body and a woman holding a head.
Tantric character of the temple is also evident in the stone post, to which sacrificial offerings were tethered.
Artificial light is needed to see in the darkness of the interior, which gets lit up by rays of rising eastern sun.

- Wikipedia,   Baitala Deula 

Pampa saras - Hampi ruins

Pampa saras is featured in the Ramayana.
It is a part of the Kishkinda kingdom.

All that is Pa in other south Indian languages, becomes Ha, in Kannada.

Paal - milk- in Tamil, is Haalu in kannada; Pavalam - coral - becomes Havalam.
Pampa is Hampa; today it is Hampi.

Ruins of Hampi are a great tourist attraction, for people from abroad.

Widyaranya - of wild skills -  started the Wijayanagara empire here, with 2 shepherd lads, after  he sighted auspicious signs. 

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi