The ten-day Mysuru Dasara festival concluded on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. Huge crowds thronged the streets and the Amba Vilas Palace, or Mysore Palace, from where the Vijayadashmi celebrations started.
Continuing the tradition, Arjuna, the 54-year-old tusker leading the pack of elephants in the 'Jamboo Savari' procession, kicked off the festivities carrying the golden 750-kg ‘howdah’.
The day ended with enthralling performances by police personnel and folk artistes.
Here are the key highlights from this year’s Mysuru Dasara:
(With inputs from Karnataka Bureau)
Folk artistes performing in the three-hour-long ‘Jamboo Savari Dasara’ procession on Tuesday.
A torchlight parade at the Bannimantap ground.
Maharaja of Mysuru Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar performs a ritual and offers prayers to the ‘Shami’ tree as part of the celebrations.
Artistes on stilts dressed as Chamundeshwari and Mahishasura during the procession.
Surgical airstrikes was one of the 39 tableaux that were part of the Dasara procession.
Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa making floral offerings to the idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari in the golden howdah carried by the 54-year-old elephant Arjuna. This is the eighth time in a row that Arjuna is carrying the howdah.
Police personnel performing bike stunts at the Bannimantap grounds as part of the celebrations.
Wrestlers taking part in the traditional wrestling, Vajramushti Kalaga, at the Mysuru Palace courtyard .
Crowd gathered on the 137-year-old Lansdowne building, a part of which had collapsed in 2012, to watch the procession in Mysuru on Tuesday.