A horse dancing to beating of drum during the Sri Gurunathaswamy temple festival at Anthiyur in Erode on Wednesday. The five-day annual festival got off to a flying start with devotees carrying the two decorated temple cars with the main deities, Sri Kamatchi, Sri Perumal and Sri Gurunathaswamy on their shoulders in the morning. The key attraction in the carnival is the livestock and cattle, numbering over 18,000 to 20,000, which is both for display and for sale. A special breed of cow, the two-foot Punganur dwarf cow, which originated from Chitoor district in Andhra Pradesh, was kept on display by a farmer from Senthamangalam in Namakkal district. Marwari horse, a Rajasthani breed, which is 65-inches, is the tallest horse at the carnival and costs Rs.

Source: The Hindu August 10, 2017 02:45 UTC