Udupi All Set to Celebrate Krishna Janmashtami & Vittal Pindi on August 26 & 27

Udupi city is all set to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami on August 26, Monday and August 27, Krishna Leelotsava (popularly known as Vittal Pindi) on Tuesday. The Krishna Mutt and Car Street have been illuminated and decorated with flowers.

Preparations have started in full swing for the festival. Cooks of the mutt were busy on Sunday and Saturday in preparing ‘chakkuli’ and ‘unde’ (laddoos) for the devotees. The ‘huli vesha’ dancers will present ‘huli or pili kunita’ in different parts of the city in addition to Car Street on both days. Krishna Vesha sparde has also been organized. An exhibition of handicrafts for Sri Krishna Janmasthami began at Geetha Mandir near the Rajangana from August 22.

The major attraction at the Vittal Pindi festival will be the carrying of the clay Krishna idol in the golden chariot on Car Street in the afternoon. The chariot will move below the wooden gopuras erected at different places on Car Street. Earthen pots containing milk and milk products would be hung from these wooden gopuras. Persons dressed in folk costumes would try to break these pots with sticks and hand. This is known as ‘mosaru kudike’. This signature event of gopalakas breaking the pots of curds is the most awaited one.

The mutt has organised different traditional competitions at the Rajangana on August 27 from 4 p.m.