On the seventh day of ongoing Brahmotsavam of Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple Malayappa Swamy blessed the devotees by riding on Suryaprabha vahanam on Wednesday morning. The Tirumala deity rode atop a vehicle adorned by Surya, the Sun God, the key architect of life of humans, animals and plants.
The chariot of Surya Prabha of Lord Venkateswara is specially designed and flower arrangement is done by a special 20-member team of designated florists from Tamil Nadu “The entire Surya Prabha design is made of jasmine flowers and laced with red and orange-coloured Kanakambara or Roses.”
It is the common belief that the darshan of Surya Prabha Vahanam would provide long life to devotees and also provide relief to them them from illnesses. The people from all parts of the district bring their aged and sick parents with the hope that their illness would be cured by having darshan of the Lord on the Surya Prabha Vahanam .
Chairman Putta Sudhakar Yadav, Executive Officer Anil Kumar Singhal, Joint executive officers K S Sreenivasa Raju, Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, CVSO Sri Nagendra Kumar, Board members Suchithra Ella, Hariprasad, Raghavendra Rao, AV Ramana, Vaidyanathan Krishnamoorthy, Sandra Venkata Veeraiah, G Bhanuprakash Reddy, ACVSO Sivakumar Reddy, DyEO of temple Chinnamgari Ramana, Peishkar R Selvam, Parpathyedar Ajay and others were present.