Religious ecstasy marked the conduct of Koil Alwar Thirumanjanam at the temple of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala on Tuesday.
The festival was observed as a prelude to the annual Brahmotsavams scheduled to commence from September 27.
A herbal paste, containing a mixture of refined camphor, vermillion, turmeric, sandalwood powder along with other herbal ingredients that act as disinfectant, was applied to all the walls, pillars including the roof inside the sanctum sanctorum and at other sub-temples existing inside the main temple complex.
