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Srirangam chitirai utsavam - Kuthiraivahanam Srirangam Vaiyali We (Kanaka Patti, Atthai, Viji chiti, Bhavani, Ananthi, Sudha, myself) went to the vaiyali. We went in two autos. Once we saw perumal before north chitra veedhi. We got down. Auto followed us was missed and went to north chitra veedhi. The otha kottu (drum beat). The nadaswaram, theevati (fire) holding people. The Elephant followed by  alwar pasurams by devotes. Next two big umbrellas.  Then Lord ranganathan.  Lord Ranganathan was sitting on a golden horse,  the Pearl Pandyan Kondai adorned  in the head he had sword, javelin and arrows.  His right hand shows apaya hasta, his left hand holding the horse.  He was wearing the Blue color velvet cloth. The bottom orange cloth is aptly fit for namperumal. We followed ranganathan went north chitra veedhi joined with other members of our family. Vaiyali is performed near ther (chariot). First round namperumal went from north (the...

28-04-2013 Sunday Kanakaduraga Temple Early morning we woke up and ready ourselves and started for kanaka durga temple. van driver arranged one big share auto to accommodated 10 persons for a local trip. he has to show kanaka durga temple, magalagiri temple and drop at railway station before 2 pm. it cost 1600/- We thought the crowd will be more and wait 2 - 3hrs in the queue so we skipped the bath in the krishna river. We went to kanakadurga temple it is in a small hillock  on the banks of krishna river. Auto went near to temple. We went in 20/- queue in the path we purchased the tickets, went inside.  kankadurga was in red saree the face is covered with chandan as if looks in the photo pictures the white flowers are decorated very nicely on her. then we had darshan of vinayaga, nataraja,and subramanya.  one room there is a kumkuma archana is going on most of them purchased the red and yellow mixed thread and tie it in the hand. kanaka durga is the syam...

Bhadrachalam Rama temple - 27- April- 2013 We (Govindan Thatha, Vijaya patti, karthi, Kanaka Patti, Vanchi, Vidya, Akshaya, Gayathri, Bhavani, Srinath, Srinidhi & myself) went to the below temples. We went to vijayawada by binakini  express. from vijayawada hired a  tempo traveller for bhadrachalam. he charged us per km 16/- and 250 driver batta  for 580 km(9250+500=9750)   We reached Bhadrachalam at night 2.00 am went to Sita nilayam, Ramdas(vijaya patti brother) booked the rooms for us. (Ramadas is the brother of Vijaya patti. He booked the rooms here and vijayawada for us. Interestely Ramados parents was interested to have a boy child so they prayed bhadrachala rama, the couple was blessed with boy child they aptly named him as Ramadas. Bhadrachala ramadas we got this bhadrachala rama temple, for us with our relative ramadas we got the darshan of rama) We woke up at 5.00 am had a bath in the Godavari river. in the godavari river side there a...