The 100-year-old Peereswarar temple is located in Thalavadi Kumtapuram, on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border. The Cow dung throwing festival is traditionally held at this temple every year on the 3rd day after Diwali.
This year’s festival began on Thursday with special pujas at the temple. On the occasion of the festival, the cow dung of all the cows in the village was collected and piled behind the temple.
Following that, special pujas were performed in the pond on the village boundary and, as per the traditional custom, the donkeys were garlanded and the devotees brought them in a procession with great fanfare. The village elders performed special pujas to the dung piled up behind the temple and started the festival.
At that time, the youths came without wearing their shirts and celebrated the festival by making the piled up dung into a ball shape and throwing it at each other. Everyone, young, and old, participated in this. Women participated in this traditional festival and applauded the devotees.
After the festival, the devotees bathed in the pond and worshipped Peereswarar. The villagers took the dung thrown by the devotees and applied it as fertilizer in their agricultural lands. The villagers believe that this will make agriculture flourish.
Devotees from Mysore, Bengaluru, Davanagere, Samraj Nagar, and Kollegal participated in this traditional festival with their families.
