About This Festival
Panguni Uthiram is an important Tamil Nadu festival celebrated during the Tamil month of Panguni, usually in March or April. It falls on the day when the Uthiram (Uttara Phalguni) nakshatra coincides with the full moon period. The festival is especially important in Tamil Nadu and is celebrated at major temples to Lord Murugan, Shiva, Vishnu and the Divine Mother. The central theme of Panguni Uthiram is the celebration of sacred marriages and divine unions. Depending on the temple, one can witness the symbolic wedding of Shiva and Parvati, Murugan and Deivanai, Vishnu and Lakshmi, or other divine couples. The gods and goddesses are beautifully dressed in silk and jewellery, priests perform the wedding ceremony, and afterwards the deities may be carried through the streets in grand processions accompanied by traditional South Indian music. Panguni Uthiram is the day when the divine world celebrates marriage, and the temple becomes the centre of that sacred wedding. This festival offers travellers a rare window into living South Indian temple culture at its most ceremonially rich.
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Panguni Uthiram — divine marriages celebrated at Tamil temples with silk, jewellery and sacred processions — is a rare window into living temple culture.
View JourneyExperience Panguni Uthiram along this Tamil Nadu route — sacred weddings of the gods celebrated with ceremony and procession.
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October – March
Chennai · Kanchipuram · Mahabalipuram · Pondicherry · Tanjore · Trichy · Madurai · Periyar · Kumarakom · Alleppey · Kochi
October – March
Chennai · Kanchipuram · Mahabalipuram · Pondicherry · Kumbakonam · Tanjore · Karaikudi · Madurai · Rameswaram · Kanyakumari · Kovalam · Trivandrum · Munnar · Periyar · Alleppey · Kochi
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