55.5
x 6cm (22 x 24 inches)
Painted during
the occasion of Karkidak
avavu when
more than 100,000 people would gather here to offer Bali to the departed
at the nearby Hindu Parasurama Temple in Thiravalum, then offering Vavubali
at Shankumukhom beach. The biggest festival of the Varkala year.