Triodasi festival celebrated

Chimakurthy: The Harihara Kshetram in Chimakurthy celebrated the Triodasi festival from Wednesday evening to Thursday evening with much gaiety. Minister Sidda Raghavarao and his wife Lakshmi Padmavathi, Sidda Panduranga Rao, Sidda Sudhakar, Sidda Venkateswara Prasad and their family members participated in the special puja programme and other rituals at the temple.

Noted Vedic scholar Krishna Sharma along with his team performed various pujas with the Raghavarao couple on Wednesday evening to Thursday evening while the Ayyappa Swamy padipuja, special puja for the sacred 18 steps, was performed in the Wednesday night gloriously.

The Sidda Venkateswarlu and Venkata Subbamma trust looked after the hospitality arrangements and provided a free meal to the devotees participating in the programmes. The Harihara Kshetra temple priests Subrahmanyam Sarma, Harikumaracharyulu, Venkateswaracharyulu, Harikrishna Sarma, Srinivasacharyulu distributed the prasadam and teertham to the devotees while Addanki Sriramachandra Murthy overseen the arrangements.