India, April 9 -- Bengaluru's iconic Karaga Shaktiyotsava, a centuries-old festival rooted in the Mahabharata and celebrated with great devotion by the Tigala community, will culminate on April 12 with the grand Karaga procession, The New Indian Express reported.

The annual event, considered one of the city's most important religious traditions, is held at the historic Sree Dharmaraya Swamy Temple in Thigalarapet, Old Bengaluru.

According to a report by TNIE, this year's Karaga will be carried by Jnanendra Vanhikula Gowda, a revered priest who has led the procession 14 times in the past. On the night of April 12, he will once again carry the sacred floral pyramid symbolic of Draupadi, as the procession winds its way through several of B...