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President Droupadi Murmu offered prayers at the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala in Pathanamthitta.
According to media reports , President Murmu is the first woman head of state to visit the Lord Ayyappa shrine at Sabarimala for offering prayers.
She is also the second president to visit the shrine as before her, former President V V Giri had visited Sabarimala in the 1970s and had travelled to the shrine in a dolly.
The President, who reached Pamba in a special convoy at around 11 am, washed her feet in the Pampa river and then offered prayers at the nearby temples, including the Lord Ganapathy shrine.
Thereafter, the melshanthi of the Ganapathy temple, Vishnu Namboothiri, filled the sacred bundle, or ‘irumudikkettu‘ of Murmu, who was dressed in a black saree, at the ‘Kettunira Mandapam‘.
