{"id":10026,"date":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/07\/tirupati-temple-murthis-brought-to-delhi-for-special-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","slug":"tirupati-temple-murthis-brought-to-delhi-for-special-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/07\/tirupati-temple-murthis-brought-to-delhi-for-special-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirupati Temple Murthis Brought To Delhi For Special Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/channels\/cities\/hyderabad\/tirupati-temple-idols-brought-delhi-special-ceremony-106 \">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 27, 2011: A large number of devotees of Lord Sri Venkateswara on Sunday had darshan of the murthis of the famous Tirupati temple of Andhra Pradesh, which were brought to the capital for a special ceremony. The &#8216;utsava murthis&#8217; or processional murthis of Lord Sri Venkateswara, Laxmi and Padmavati were placed on the grounds of Venkateswara College here for Kalyana Mahotsavam&#8217; puja, a symbolic wedding of Lord Balaji with Laxmi and Padmavati.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 priests, including the head priest of the temple, had escorted the murthis from Tirupati to Delhi during a two-day journey on a special bus. &#8220;Kalyana Mahotsavam puja is performed daily for about three hours in Tirupati. It is for the fourth time that such a ceremony has been organized in Delhi,&#8221; said head priest Sri Sundaravaradevan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Traditionally, devotees go to seek blessings of the Lord but this time the Lord has come to bless his devotees. Actually, there are a lot of aged people who cannot make it to Tirupati so these murthis have been brought here,&#8221; said R. V. Kavitha Prasad, Secretary, Hindu Dharma Prachara, of the Tirumala temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 27, 2011: A large number of devotees of Lord Sri Venkateswara on Sunday had darshan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}