Holi begins on first ‘Rangbhari Ekadashi’ in Ayodhya | Lucknow Information

AYODHYA: The competition of colors, ‘Rangotsav’ began on the primary ‘Rangbhari Ekadashi’ after the consecration ceremony on the Ram temple by making use of colors to the deity in Hanumangarhi temple.
About 500 seers utilized colors to one another and carried out the ‘panchkosi parikrama’ of the temple city. A procession was taken out carrying the image of Hanumangarhi temple.
Within the wee hours of Wednesday itself, gulal was utilized on the cheeks of the deities within the sanctum sanctorum of greater than 10,000 temples of Ayodhya together with the aarti and decorations. Firstly of Holi, gulal was additionally utilized as prasad to the devotees coming to the temples. On this event, the roads have been seen colored with abeer and gulal. Seers danced to the beat of drums and wrestlers from the akharas additionally demonstrated their expertise and power.
Mahant Raju Das of Hanumangarhi mentioned that the procession set out from Siddha Peeth Hanumangarhi together with Naga sadhus.
Within the procession, a gaggle of Naga sadhus got here out on the roads with a band enjoying music. The seers drenched everybody passing by with abeer-gulal. The procession handed by the primary roads of Ayodhya and stopped at each temple on the route, the place the Naga sadhus performed Holi with the idols of the deities.