Sri Raghavendra Swami Aradhane, huge turnout
- IndiaGlitz, [Thursday,August 10 2017]
For the 346 Sri Raghavendra Swami Aradhane festival the inflow of devotees is massive in Mantralaya near Raichur District of Karnataka. The three days Aradhane' concludes on Thursday has influx of all caste people thronging to different Rayara Math elsewhere in Karnataka.
The legend from Karnataka Infosys Narayanamurthy was seen in traditional attire in one of the Rayara Math on the first day.
Sri Raghavendra Swamy Brindavana in Mantralaya headed by Sri Subhudendra Theertha offered special Poojas and the sacred cloth for Brindavana was from Thirupathi Thirumala temple.
On the first day over 2 lakh devotees came to Mantralaya and the shower arrangement for bath at the Thungabhadra river surroundings was organized as the river water was not enough to the pilgrims.
In Mantralaya it is celebration of Aradhane of Lord Raghavendra Swamy from 6th of August to 12th of August. Sri Subhudendra Swamy gave start to Saptha Rathotsava'. The daily Pooja for seven days was from early morning 4 am. On the Lunar eclipse day – 7th of August the procession did not take place.
Sri Raghavendra Anugraha award was bestowed on Vidwan Venkatesha Bayari of Bengaluru, Vidwan Gopalakrishna Shastri of Rajamandry, PR Vittal social activist from Coimbatore, Dr Gururaja Vaidhya of Haveri. Sri Subhudendra Swamiji of Mantralaya honored on the occasion of 346 Sri Raghavendra Swami Aradhana.