आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Festival celebrated in the city of
Madurai in the southern Indian state of
Tamil Nadu, on the full moon in the
lunar month of Magh (January–
February). This is the birthday of King
Tirumalai Nayak (r. 1623–1659), during whose reign large parts of
Madurai’s Minakshi Temple was built.
During the festival the goddess
Minakshi and her consort Sundareshvara
(an epithet of Shiva) are taken in procession to an artificial lake east of
Madurai, where they are put on richly
decorated floats and drawn back and
forth over the lake’s waters.