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60k visit Arasavilli on Ratha Saptami
The New Indian Express Tirupati
|February 05, 2025
THOUSANDS of devotees visited the Sri Suryanarayana Swamy temple at Arasavilli on Tuesday and had the Nijarupa Darshan on the occasion of Ratha Saptami.
Nearly 60,000 devotees from various parts of the Telugu States, as well as neighboring Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and West Bengal, had the divine darshan between 1 am and 7 pm on Tuesday.
Principal Secretary of Endowments (Revenue) V Vinay Chand launched the celebrations by presenting silk robes to the Sun God on behalf of the State government. This was followed by milk anointing, Dwadasa Harati, and Maha Nivedhana to Sri Suryanarayana Swamy. Later, the temple officials allowed devotees to have the Nijarupa Darshan.
This story is from the February 05, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Tirupati.
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