During the Dasara festival the Mysore Palace is covered in roughly 100,000 bulbs, lit on each of the nine nights. “The centre of attraction is the illuminated palace lit up with nearly 100,000 incandescent bulbs,” Business Standard wrote in 2014.
The year before, LED bulbs had been used. For 2014 the officials went back to the old bulbs, “the bulbs that light up the places brightly,” a festival officer explained.