Launch of the Tamil Nadu Padayatra in Sri Rangam

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Mar 28, 2016

By Prasanna Shyam Dasa

On February 10th 2016, we started the all-Tamil Nadu padayatra at Sri Rangam in the  presence of Srila Prabhupada disciple Akhiladhar prabhu and the All India padayatra devotees. Harish Bhatter, Srila Gopala Bhatta Goswami 15th generation devotee, started the procession. We did house programs, public programs and nagar sankirtana around Trichy. Finaly we reach Kumbakonam at the time of the Kumba-mela festival. Many  congressional devotees participated in the programs. There were around 30 lakhs (3 million)npeople during the 5 days of  the Kumbha-mela festival. The Tamil Nadu padayatris and the ISKCON Kumbhakonam devotees distributed a total of more than 1,000 Bhagavad- gitas and  10,000 Back to Godhead magazines.