Origin of Supra paatham

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Thirup palli ezhuchchi defenitely precedes all the supra paadams by chronology

and excels by style and composition. If one should find an origin for "supra

paatham" then one would like to take a look at raamaayan and vishwamitra's

calling Raama as "Kausalyaa suprajaa ramaa ....". Venkatesa avathaaram is not

of

Kali yugam. There are citations of Lord Balaji in "Saneeswara Puraanam" that

Saraswathi did penance at Thirumalai seeking his blessings, prior to Ramaa

Avathaaram. The Adivaraahar at thirumalai, the presiding deity for Balaji,

certainly dates to varaaha avathaaram and Lord Venkatesaa himself is somewhere

between varaaha avathaaram and Ramaa avathaaram.

I am sure there are references to this shethram in other puraanams which will

give a directiona and idea on the dates sought.

Sampath Rengi