[sri ramanuja] Tirumala Brahmotsavam fetches a record Rs.94 million

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SrI:

SwAmin,

Very well said. It is very sad that many divyadesams and achAryAs are wallowing in poverty when crores of money is pouring into Tirumala. Sometimes I wonder what could be the ramifications if a civil suit is filed by the Tirumala Jeeyars claiming sole ownership of everything in Tirumala. Basically, the very shrine owes its greatness and importance to SwAmi emperumAnAr and other AchAryas like ananthAnpiLLai and SwAmi MAmunikaL isn't it??

dAsan

kidAmbi soundararAjan.

 

Lakshmi Narasimhan <nrusimhann > wrote:

Very unfortunate that such a fund is not controlled and regulated by

eminent Sri Vaishnava Scholars - one of the reasons why there are

Temples and Jeeyar mutts that are in ruins while Thiruvengadamudaiyan

is earning so much in contribution. Only He can do something about

fixing such problems I guess:(

 

adiyEn

rAmAnuja dAsan

 

ramanuja, "amudala satyanarayana"

<scribesatya wrote:

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> Tirumala Brahmotsavam fetches a record Rs.94 million

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> TIRUPATI, OCT.3, 2006 (TIRUPATITIMES.COM)

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> The famous hill shrine of Lord Sri Venkateswara, richest in the

country,

> at Tirumala near here has fetched a record total collections of

about

> Rs.94 million during the nine-day annual Brahmotsavam festivals that

> concluded today.

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> Revealing this information to the press on the hills this evening,

the

> Executive Officer of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), Mr.

A.P.V.

> Narayana Sarma and Joint Executive Officer, Mr. G. Balaramaiah said

> that, of this, the temple hundi (Offering Box) alone has netted the

cash

> offerings about Rs.70.8 million besides huge gold and other precious

> offerings.

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> The sale of darshan tickets has amounted to Rs.12 million while the

> Laddu prasadams sales accounted for Rs. 11.2 million.

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> About a million devotees from across the country and abroad have

> participated in the processions of Lord, both in the morning and

night

> daily during the nine-day festivals while only half of them have

> thronged the shrine to have darshan of the presideing deity of Lord

> Venkateswara at the sanctum sanctorum, Mr.Sarma said.

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> Interestingly, about 2.5 lakh devotees including women and infants

have

> had their heads tonsured as a fulfillment of vow before entering

into

> the shrine.

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> This Brahmotsavam total collection was Rs.10 million more than last

> year, he added. http://www.tirupatitimes.com/

> <http://www.tirupatitimes.com/>

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