The events took place at a very beautiful temple in Bangalore, India. As you can see from the following photgraph, the temple combines Subramanyam with Ganesha and Shiva, as is typical.
Here on the left, is the Ganesha temple, where our priests performed a full abishekam yagya where cooling and cleansing liquid offerings such as water, milk, yogurt, etc are poured over the deity. Afterwards the deity is is dressed in a new dhoti, decorated with fresh flower malas, and a complete vedic puja is performed.
The Shiva temple contains a very nice dark Shiva lingam. In the following photo you can see a copper pot hanging above the lingam which slowly drips a continuous stream of water on the lingam. After our abishekam, the lingam was decorated with beautiful malas.
The Subramanyam temple is always located on the left as viewed from the Shiva lingam. So it would be on the far right in the following photo. On the roof you see Shiva and Parvati on the left and Subramanyam on the right.
Subramanyam is shown here with his 2 wives; Valli and Devayani. Subramanyam rides a peacock, seen in the foreground in light colored granite, and in the background behind Subramanyam.
In South India, the deities often wear different kinds of silver items. Here they are seen over the eyes. The explanation is usually that the power of the deity's sight is so strong that it needs to be reduced through the use of these "divine sunglasses".
Subramanyam always has a "vel" (spear) that was given to him by his mother Parvati, seen here along with beautiful flower malas.
At the conclusion of the abishekam and pujas, Subramanyam, Valli and Devayani look very nice indeed.
