The Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala’s capital city of Thiruvananthapuram will be holding the Murajapam rituals starting from November 20, temple officials said adding that actor Rana Daggubati is set to inaugurate the cultural events.

The Murajapam is the ritual chanting of the four Vedas by Vedic scholars from various parts of the country, in seven muras or turns, each of which lasts eight days. This grand festival is celebrated once in six years. Lakshadeepam is a festival of lighting one hundred thousand (100,000) lamps at the temple, and it denotes the culmination of the renowned 56-day Murajapan.

During Murajapam, Vedas are chanted in seven cycles or muras, with each mura lasting eight days. Each cycle ends with a sacred procession known as the Muraseeveli carried out by the p

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