Religious ecstasy marked ‘Koil Alwar Thirumanjanam’ at the temple of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala on Tuesday.
The ritual was observed as a prelude to the annual Vaikunta Ekadasi festival slated on December 23.
The temple and its precincts were thoroughly cleansed with water and a herbal paste containing a rich mixture of refined camphor, high quality turmeric, vermilion, sandal wood powder along with other ingredients that act as disinfectant was applied to all the walls, pillars and the roof inside the sanctum sanctorum as well as at all the other sub-temples inside the temple complex.
