Rites and Rituals

Rites and rituals


As Sri venkataramana temple is related to Tirumala it follows the same rituals as in Tirupathi Temple. In the morning at 6:00AM (in some cases it is 5:30 am during ‘Ashwija Masa’) the temple doors are opened with Dwara Pooja and Suprabhatam. Dwara Pooja is performed for  Jaya-Vijaya (in Vishnu Loka they represent Dwara Paalakas).

Suprabhatam is a special shlokha recited to wake up the Lord from his sleeps. Then after the end  of Suprabhatam Nirmala Visarjana (removal of old flowers and decoration of new ones to deities) is performed with Ganji Naivedyam(Pejje Naivedyam in Konkani-serving of rice and rice item foods, including Navaneetham-mixture of butter, til and sugar) at about 6:30 am. At 10:00 am Panchaamrutha abhishekha is performed for the Saligrama. Panchaamrutha abhishekha here is a typical one as performed in Tirupathi. In Tirumala this is performed on Lord Venkateshwara’s Saligrama Stone Statue and to honour the same here it is performed on the Saligrama.

In the afternoon at 12:00 pm Naivedyam is performed wherein several items are served for the lord in a huge plate and utensil made out of copper(Harivana Naivedyam) . Once the Naivedya is over little bit of rice is served in small utensils and is kept in front of Parivar Devas while one is offered to Sree Veeramaruthi Temple. After this Maha Puja is performed at 1:00 pm, this is called here as Raajopchaara Pooja. The temple doors are closed after this for Vishrama Seva.

Late in the evening at about 6:00 pm, temple doors are again opened with lighting of oil lamps(Deeparadanam). A special shlokha is sung called as Deevtige Salaam Shlokham. At 6:30PM people from all over the town come to temple to sing Bhajans and this goes on until 8:00 pm. At 8`O clock again Naivedyam is offered with Mangalaarthi.

Once Mangalaaarthi gets over night Utsava is offered, this is usually an outing to the town except on Amavasya and Ekadashi. Once Utsava returns to temple there are five rounds inside,first one is Vaadhya Suttu(Instrumental), second and third are Rigveda and Yajurveda Suttu, fourth one Sangeeta Suttu (By Bhagvath family) and last one being Sarva Vaadya Suttu. After the utsav ends with Vasantha Puja (Lord is given Uyyale seva with recitals of shlokhas) deities are put to sleep which is known as Ekaantha Seva.

8 comments to Rites and Rituals

  • Janardhana Kini m Tonse (JK)

    Lord Shree Padutirupathi Shreenivasa bless us all..

    Congratulations and this website is well designed with detailed note and photos…
    thanks to the Management and Bhajak vrinda for providing this web to us who could get info. on the latest events at our fingure tips..

    Thanks
    M J Kini (JK)
    Mangaluru

  • Sharada Pai

    Beautiful web site!! I enjoyed reading the history of the temple. It may be advantageous to those of us abroad to plan visits around special events if there is a special section created on the web site. As far as I know these are decided as soon as the Panchanga comes out so it can be published for the rest of the year and updated annually. Thanks for sharing this wealth of information.

    • Thanks for your valuable feedback. As per your suggestion we will be creating a section shortly for the events with tentative dates. As the Jeernoddhara work is progress, the events are being planned accordingly and not all events are being held.

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