More potent symbols of Hindu Devotion

            A closer profile of the yellow robed women carrying a kalash.

The main group of procession comprising of middle aged ladies dressed in lime yellow sarees appeared with the symbolic kalasha on their head sans a supporting ring ( which a woman normally puts if you carry a water vessel in the parched Indian sub continent ).

The kalasha here is an earthen vessel and is filled with perhaps rice and holy water etc and topped with the great harbinger of godhood, the coconut. 

The coconut represents the Hindu trinity of Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the protector) and Shiva (the destroyer). You do a threefold tribute with one coconut.

It must be a tough task carrying the contraption on your skull but religious fervour often over rides comfort.

I as a bystander in the throng of the Brindavan street can only wonder what the procession was about.

Certainly not the yellow jersey group on a Tour De France in July with a red Baden Powell Neckerchief. :) 

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Taken on: November 6, 2008

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