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The other important festival celebrated in Chennai is the Arubathimoovar festival. It refers to the 63 saints of Shiva canonized for leading exemplary lives of devotion and penance. Bronze figures of these 63 saints adorn the magnificent Kapaliswar Temple at Mylapore, Chennai. Once, every year, they are carried in a colorful procession through the streets of Mylapore.