Grandeur marked the ‘Pallavotsavam’ at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala on Wednesday.
The festival is celebrated every year on the birth star of the then Maharaja of Mysore in acknowledgment of his munificent donation of huge amounts of gold, diamond, pearl and other precious jewelry to the temple.
Soon after the ‘Sahasra Deepalankara Seva’, the processional deities of Lord Malayappa Swamy and his two consorts were taken out in a grand procession to the Karnataka State charities, where the authorities and the representatives of the royal family performed pujas.
