The Aanayoottu (feeding of elephants) is a festival held in the precincts of the Vadakkunnathan temple in City of Thrissur, in Kerala.

It involves a number of unadorned elephants being positioned amid a multitude of people for being worshipped and fed.

It is believed that offering poojas and delicious feed to the elephants is a way to satisfy Lord Ganesha—the god of wealth and of the fulfillment of wishes.

The festival presently involves sixteen elephants; the number was previously higher (around fifty), but was reduced following under direction of the district administration.

Looking in to these devotes feeling the temple authorities started these rejuvenation therapy as a public event named as ‘The Aanayoottoo Festival’.