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More than 500 villagers gathered to watch riders who were participating in the race. The race was divided into categories based on the size of the bullocks–small bullocks and ‘poonjeettu’ bullocks. This type of race was held for the first time ever in the village.
Bullock cart race in Jambulingapuram on Janmashtami
Chennai: While the whole country celebrates Shri Krishna Janmashtami in the worship of Lord Krishna, in the Jambulingapuram village in Thoothukudi district celebrated the Festival with bullock cart racing on Saturday.
More than 500 villagers gathered to watch riders who were participating in the race. The race was divided into categories based on the size of the bullocks--small bullocks and 'poonjeettu' bullocks. This type of race was held for the first time ever in the village.
The winner bullock cart teams were awarded with attractive prizes. The whole ceremony was an spectacle to the enthusiastic crowds.
After the success of today's race, the Festival Committee has decided that the race will be an annual affair on every Krishna Janmashtami.
The villagers also expressed happiness over the race, with the new spectacle attracting crowds of over 500 people, eager to watch the spectacle for the first time.
There was a king named Kamsa who was the tyrant ruler of the Vrishni kingdom with its capital at Mathura. He is variously described in Hindu literature as either a human or an asura. However the Puranas depict him as an asura, while the Harivamśa describes him as an asura reborn in the body of a man.
The sister of Kamsa was Devaki who was married to Vasudeva. At the time of marriage a heavenly voice predicted that Devaki's eighth child would kill Kamsa and end his evil rule.
After this prediction Kansa was so terrified that he jailed Devaki and Vasudeva and decided to kill all their children as soon as they were born. And so he killed the first seven children one by one.
But when the eighth child, Krishna, was born at midnight in the jail. Just then a miracle happened. The soldiers fell asleep, the jail chains opened themselves, and the gates of the jail swung open.
The father Vasudeva secretly put the baby Krishna in a basket and crossed across the Yamuna River and arrived at Gokul. There he gave baby Krishna to Nanda and Yashoda and brought back their newborn daughter to the prison.
