These colourful Buddhist festivals usually include daytime and torch-lit night-time processions of caparisoned temple elephants, dancers and musicians.
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Television commercials, banners, shopping bags, caparisoned elephants and drummers carrying the message were used as part of a publicity blitz across the country.
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A sharp-eared earthenware dog gives a yelp; an elaborately caparisoned camel brays; plump court ladies conveying a Margaret Dumont hauteur turn away in chilly disdain.
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On descending to the driveway Mrs . Kennedy will find the Caisson followed by the Caparisoned Horse some 20-30 yards to the left and on the driveway.
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The idol of the lord is taken atop caparisoned elephant to various places which are related to the temple from the second day to the sixth day of the festival.
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The festival highlights include among other things a spectacular pageant of 30 caparisoned elephants and Kudamattom, a competition in the swift rhythmic changing of brightly coloured and sequined parasols.
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Heraldic displays were ubiquitous : at Valladolid in 1509, the bulls in the fields outside the city were caparisoned with cloths painted with the royal arms and hung with bells.
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He was also awarded a horse " properly caparisoned as a token of . . . approbation of his gallant conduct . . . in the late enterprize to Danbury ."
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An important ceremonial use is in military funerals, which often have a caparisoned horse as part of the procession, " to symbolize that the warrior will never ride again ".
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Celebrated in the Malayalam calendar of Medom ( April May ) in every year, it consists of processions of richly caparisoned elephants from various neighbouring temples to the Vadakkunnathan Temple, Thrissur.
