Little lords steal limelight at Janmashtami
Toddlers dressed as Krishna take part in Janmashtami celebrations at Maharana Pratap Bhavan on Thursday. The venue was decorated with fruits and flowers. Artistes enacted Lord Krishna's birth. Around 1,000 devotees took part in the celebration. The high point of the day was little children dressed as Krishna feeding butter to each other. The children's mothers came dressed as Yashoda. At the celebrations at Dadiji Temple artistes enacted beautiful moments from Krishna's life. "Lord Shiv came in the guise of a gopi (cowherd girl) to see little Krishna's antics. The artistes enacted the scenes very beautifully," said Amar Agrawal, one of the members of the temple management committee. The Patna chapter of Iskcon organised a cultural programme at SK Memorial Hall in which artistes from a Calcutta-based group performed various episodes from Krishna's life. Devotees from Vrindavan, Calcutta and London had arrived to take part in the event. Mahavishnu Swami Maharaj, an Iskcon guru from London, also took part. "Lord Krishna would be given a bath with 151 water-filled silver pots at midnight," said Iskcon Patna's president Krishna Kripa Das. Text by Shuchismita Chakraborty, picture by Nagendra Kumar Singh
TT Bureau
Published 26.08.16, 12:00 AM
Friday, 25 July 2025
