{"id":3390,"date":"2023-02-26T05:46:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:38:38","slug":"what-is-attukal-ponkala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-attukal-ponkala\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Attukal Ponkala?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Attukal Ponkala:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>10-day long festival<\/strong> celebrated <strong>annually at Attukal Bhagavathy Temple<\/strong> in Trivandrum, <strong>Kerala<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This festival is <strong>dedicated to Attukal Bhagavathy<\/strong>, also known as <strong>Goddess Kannaki or Bhadrakali.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>celebrated every year<\/strong> and falls <strong>in the month of February or March<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pongala<\/strong>, which <strong>means &#8216;to boil over\u2019<\/strong>, is the <strong>ritual in which women prepare sweet payasam<\/strong> (<strong>a pudding<\/strong> made from rice, jaggery, coconut and plantains cooked together) and <strong>offer it to the Goddess or \u2018Bhagavathy\u2019<\/strong>. This ritual is <strong>performed on the 9th day<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>largest congregation of women for a festival in the world<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>During the 10-days festivities, <strong>a sacrificial offering known as Kuruthitharpanam is also included<\/strong> in the religious event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0\u00a0Where is Attukal Bhagavathy Temple?<\/h3>\n<p>Attukal temple is located at the heart of Thiruvananthapuram city in Kerala. It has Goddess Bhadrakali (Kannaki) as the main deity. Bhadrakali, according to Hindu mythology, is the Goddess of prosperity and salvation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/all-arrangements-in-place-for-attukal-pongala-to-be-held-on-march-7\/article66553260.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>All arrangements in place for Attukal Pongala ritual to be held on March 7<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attukal Ponkala is a 10-day long festival celebrated annually at Attukal Bhagavathy Temple in Trivandrum, Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}