Lord Rama’s birthday celebrated with religious fervour

Amid blowing of conch shells and rendering of devotional songs,devotees offered prayers.

The faithful thronged temples since daybreak and dips in sacred rivers marked Ram Navmi,the birthday of Lord Rama,celebrated across the country on Tuesday with religious fervour and gaiety.

Amid blowing of conch shells and rendering of devotional songs,devotees offered prayers at illuminated temples as a huge posse of policemen stood guard outside the shrines.

In the holy city of Haridwar in Uttarakhand,tens of thousands of people took dips in the surging waters of river Ganges and paid obeisance at temples amid tight security.

The national capital saw devotees carrying offerings to deities,and flocking to decorated temples since dawn to offer prayers.

In Ayodhya,pilgrims took dips in the holy Saryu river and thronged temples where special prayers were held at mid-day when Lord Rama was supposed to have been born.

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