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On gliding past the vestibule, leaving the outer gate, where a bell is incessantly being tolled, we could see the great God Srinivasa here visible in all his glory. It is an idol about seven feet high standing on a high pedestal, with four arms and cut of a fine-grained blackstone. It was coated with gold armour and bejewelled ornaments. The forehead was adorned by two large perpendicular streaks of pachcha karpuram in imitation of the tri-marks. The first two arms hold golden representations of the Sankha and Chakra which were not originally cut out of the stone block. They were, however, blackened so far as to appear to be stone to the uninitiated.
Trekking the Sacred Tirumala Hills in 1872
Read the Earlier Episodes Editor’s NoteAFTER RESTING IN TIRUPATI, V.N. Narasimhan sets out for Tirumala the next day. He gives a blow-by-blow account of the jou
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