Tirupati: The sacred Kaisika Dwadasi Asthanam was held in the early hours of Wednesday at the Tirumala temple. The rarely-seen idol of Ugra Srinivasa Murty, the Snapana Bera of Lord Venkateswara, was paraded along with Sridevi and Bhudevi in the temple’s Mada Streets from 4.30 am to 5.30 am amidst light drizzles. Ugra Srinivasa Murty, one of the five primary …
The abode of Lord Venkateswara on Tuesday reverberated with spiritual fervour as the annual Anivara Asthanam festival unfolded at the hill temple. The ritual was held at the ‘bangaru vakili’ where the priests ceremoniously performed special rituals to the utsava deities of Lord Malayappa and his two consorts mounted atop the golden Sarva Bhoopala vahanam in the presence of pontiffs, …