Everyone appears as a devotee. There is no chat, only quiet company.

Mandirs

Tap a place and you will walk there.

🙏 Thank you.

Getting around

• 🧭 Places walks you to any part of the temple.

What you can do

• 🛕 Darshan Join the line and stand before the deity.
• 🙏 Pranam or 🙇 Sashtang Bow, or lie flat in full prostration.
• 🔄 Pradakshina Walk once round the sanctum.
• 🔔 Bell, diya, flowers, incense Your diya and incense keep burning for others.
• 🧘 Meditate Sit on a cushion, with a timer if you like.
• 📿 Mala Count your japa on 108 beads.
• 🛎️ Ghanta Play the ghanta or manjira.
• 🌸 Offer Flowers, a lotus or a gold coin at her feet.
• 🌊 Float diya Set a lamp on the lotus pond.
• 🎆 Crackers Sparklers, chakras and flowerpots at the Phuljhari Maidan.

Good to know

• 🪔 Aarti is for everyone, four times a day. Tap the time at the top to see when.
• 🔊 The temple is quiet by default. Choose chants and set the volume under ⚙︎.
• 🌐 No sign-in and no chat. Others appear as quiet devotees with a gentle name.

The temple is quiet. Choose something to listen to, if you like; it plays only for you.

Volume

Aarti happens for everyone four times a day, on temple time in India: 6:00, 12:00, 18:30 and 21:00 IST, shown here in your own time. Its conch and bells are heard by everyone. At other times the bells you ring are heard only by you; switch on the option above to also hear temple bells every five minutes and chanting every ten.

Chants recited by Sri Venkata Sastry, with thanks to Vedamantram. Om: “OM chanting” by manblunder. Mahamrityunjaya: Rameshvar, Free Art License. Om Namah Shivaya: शिव साहिल, CC BY-SA 4.0. Full details.

Lakshmi: “Lakshmi 3D Model” by Mohsina.Haque, CC BY 4.0. Reduced for the web and finished here in gold.

Nandi: “Nandi - Pondhicherry Museum” by akaN0ob, a scan of the Nandi at the Pondicherry Museum, CC BY 4.0. Cleaned of its museum floor and finished here in black stone.