While many temples are elaborately decorated with strings of colourful lights and flowers, several tableaux depicting various stages of lord Krishna’s life are being attractively displayed at many places. However, the Race Course Reserve Police lines ground in the city saw the maximum of footfalls because of the tableaux that were put up.
The tableaux put up at the Police lines premises depicted the entire Krishna leela, the myriad encounters the divine incarnation had in course of his chequered life. Right from the birth of lord Krishna in the ‘karaagar’ (prison), Kansa killing infants of Vasudeva and Devaki, Krishna being carried by his father Vasudeva to Vrindavan, to Krishna’s ball falling in Yamuna and the like, all these stages of his life were beautifully portrayed through the tableaux put up at the Police line.
“To avoid stampede, we made all arrangements,” said Reserve Inspector Police line, Gyan Singh Negi.
“We eagerly wait for Janmashtami festival because of the tableaux which is put up at the Police line every year. It is delightful spectacle of people queuing up to see the stages of the lord’s life on the beautifully and aesthetically arranged tableaux, ” said Deepak from Reserve Police line.
Children from the area were seen intently viewing the tableaux.
like every year, the temple was decked up with lights and flowers. Members from the temple committee painted the temple walls days before the celebration started.
Other temples located across the city were also illuminated to mark the day. Streams of devotes were seen thronging them since the morning. Swings of the lord decked up with garlands, peacock feathers and lights fascinated the devotees. Devotional songs were being heard since the morning.
The kids dressed up as “kanha” playing with the flutes naturally became the cynosures of the celebration.
However, the celebration gathers momentum in the night hours when lord Krishna was born.