Source: The Hindu
TALACAUVERY, INDIA, October 18, 2002: Thousands of devotees of the Goddess Cauvery were able to witness the annual event where the Goddess emerges from a tiny pond in the form of a holy spring. Priests chanted Vedic hymns during the ceremony called “teerthodbhava” that ended with many pilgrims jumping into the tank for ablution. In preparation for the sacred event, devotees shave their heads, chant the Goddess’s name, and bathe in the sangam, the confluence of the rivers Cauvery, Kanike and Sujyoti.