Mock hunting held as part of Kanuma festival at Tirumala
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Mock hunting held as part of Kanuma festival at Tirumala

The Hindu  

As part of the annual Kanuma festival, priests observed the traditional mock hunting at ‘Parvetu Mandapam’ in Tirumala on Wednesday. The processional idol of Lord Malayappa dressed in the robes of a royal hunter along with his celestial ‘panchayudhas’ like ‘gada, kadga, bana, sankhu and chakra’, was taken out in a procession to the venue — Parvetu Mandapam — situated in the Tirumala forests, about 2 km from the temple. The ‘vahanam’ bearers carrying Lord Malayappa mounted atop a golden palanquin trailed behind the temple priest, who ran ahead holding a silver spear in his hand and symbolically hunted down a couple of deer kept tied in the nearby bush. A series of religious proceedings dotted the festival day which commenced with the ‘Kakabali’, where ‘archakas’ mixed turmeric and vermilion in boiled rice and offered it to Lord Vimana Venkateswara, atop Ananda Nilayam.

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