NAMO NARAYANA
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- sri:
- srimate ramanujaya
namah:
- sri padmavati
sametha sri srinivasa parabrahmane namah:
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- Customs
of the Tirupathi Temple
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- Extracted from
"Sri Venkateswara, The Lord of the Seven Hills, Tirupati"
- by Pidatala
Sitapati, Bharatiya Vidya
Bhavan, 1968, pp .154 - 157
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- Srimad Viganasa
Maharishi and his disciples
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- Sriya Kanthaiya
Kalyana Nithaya Nithaya Thinaam
- Sri Venkatasa
Nivasaaya Srinivasaaya Mangalam |
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- Lakshmi Vallabha
Sangalpa Vallabhaaya Mahaatmane
- Srimat Viganase
Bhooya NityaSri Nitya Mangalam||
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 Worship
in the Temple
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- The worship in the temple
is strictly according to Vaikhanasa Agama. According to Bhavishyottara Puranam,Vaikhanasa
Maharishi (above)is said to have
admired the leelas of Lord Krishna in Dvapara Yugam and did Tapas
to obtain Darshan of the
Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna then appeared to him and informed him that the sage
should worship him as Lord Srinivasa only.
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- Swami Pushkarini
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- He was also directed
to proceed to Seshachalam and worship Lord Srinivasa who had
manifested Himself in an ant-hill. A Sudra by name Rangadasa
would help him locate the Lord in the hill. Vaikhanasa Rishi
is then said to have proceeded to Tirumalai, obtained the services
of one Rangadasa, located the Lord in the ant hill and started
worshipping the Lord of Tirumalai.Thus Vaikhanasa Rishi was the
first person to worship the Lord of Tirumalai; the temple is
to this day worshipped thaerefore according to the Vaikhanasa
practices only.The routine of daily worship is now described
briefly.
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- Bangaru Vakkili*
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- Suprabatham
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- The day starts with
the Suprabatham or awakening of the Lord.
- The Suprabatha Hymn
is sung before the Bangaru
Vakkili . Immediately
- after this is over,
the Bhoga Srinivasa who is in bed in the Sayana
Mantapam
- is shifted to the sanctum.Navanitha
Harati is done to the Lord and a mixture
- of cow's milk , butter
and sugar is offered to the Deity. The devotees
- who have chanted the
hymns of the Suprabatham are then allowed to have
- the darshan of the Lord.This
darshan is called Suprabatha darshanam.
- Devotees are usually
given as prasadam, the mixture of milk , butter and
- sugar offered to the
Lord. The Viswarupaseva follows immeidately when all pilgrims
waiting outside the temple are allowed to have darshan of the
Lord.
- The thirtham left in
the thirtham vessels at night are also now distributed to
- the devotees. As mentioned
earlier , the celestials are supposed to worship
- the Lord at night, and
this thirtham is the thirtham of the puja performed by Brahma
and other celestials.
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