At the same time when tens of thousands of women took part at the annual Attukal Pongala festival in Thiruvananthapuram, hundreds of devotees in Mysore too conducted the similar ritual here.
On Sunday, when the rituals began at 10.30am in one of the largest religious congregation in the world, seeking the blessings of Attukkal Bhagavathy by making the ritualistic Pongala offering in Kerala, devotees in Mysore too started preparing Pongala near Rajarajeshwari temple in south Mysore.