Talk:Karthika Deepam

Latest comment: 11 months ago by Drusekoana in topic Karthigai Deepam at Trincomalee

Karthikai Deepam and Karthigai Deepam are one and the same, hence both can be merged under 'Karthikai Deepam' which is closer to the correct word.

Proposed merge with Karthikai deepam fireworks edit

one of the cracker used in the festival mentioned so should be added inside main article (as the main article is still short) Shrikanthv (talk) 07:04, 15 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Dickensas (talk) 09:27, 16 December 2014 (UTC)Yes I am merged itReply

Karthika deepotsavam edit

Hii 2405:201:D003:6091:8DE:C397:24F7:3968 (talk) 13:49, 18 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Karthigai Deepam at Trincomalee edit

The two sources added about an equivalent celebration of "Karthigai Deepam" in the Trincomalee temple in Sri Lanka, in fact refer only to the Tiruvannamalai temple. The Hindu article too, a semi-protected newspaper article, only talks about Tiruvannamalai and does not mention Trincomalee at all. While the first source is currently broken, but with a title clearly mentioning only Tiruvannamalai and the rites done in this temple.

After further research, it does not appear that the Trincomalee temple celebrates this festival in a peculiar way (compared to other temples in Sri Lanka like the Nallur Kandaswamy or even the Dehiwala Vishnu temple). I mean in a way that makes the Karthigai Deepam of the Trincomalee temple similar to the Karthigai Deepam of the Thiruvannamalai temple (the Maha deepam in particular; which seems to me non-existent in Koneswaram, or in any case incomparable - especially if it is done in the same way as in other major Sri Lankan temples, such as the Kandaswamy temple in Jaffna). Most of the references to this subject online are vague and do not confirm the information with certainty.

Drusekoana (talk) 15:03, 19 May 2023 (UTC)Reply