Circumambulation of a sacred hill, most famously Arunachala at Tiruvannamalai; pradakshina performed at the scale of a mountain rather than a shrine.

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  Around the base, pilgrims walk the fourteen kilometres of the hill barefoot, a circuit called Girivalam , especially on full-moon nights.

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