Devotees smear ‘gulal’ on each other as the palanquin carrying the idol of Shree Shantadurga Kunkallikarin leaves the Fatorpa temple
Goa News, NT NETWORK, MARGAO: The traditional sontrio (umbrella) festival was celebrated with pomp and religious fervour at Cuncolim on Tuesday. Thousands of devotees from all walks of life participated as the idol of the deity Shree Shantadurga Kunkallikarin was taken from the Fatorpa temple to her place of origin in Cuncolim and then back to Fatorpa. In the afternoon, pooja was performed in the temple of Shree Shantadurga in Fatorpa by twelve vangdis and the deity was put in a silver palanquin. Gulal (color) was put on the goddess and on the image of the gods that are installed near her temple. The idol was taken in a procession accompanied by twelve umbrellas (sontris) carried by the descendents of satpurush that is the sath vangdis (7 direct descendents) and the panch vangdis (5 associates) Catholics and Hindus. The palanquin was carried under the shelter of the twelve umbrellas which swayed to the beats of drum as the procession made its way to Cuncolim from Fatorpa. Source: http://www.navhindtimes.in/:
