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The historical Sri Prasanna Venkateswara Swamy temple astatine Konda Bitragunta successful Bogolu mandal successful SPSR Nellore territory has been renovated and is each acceptable for its yearly Brahmotsavams, scheduled to commence connected February 25.
Built successful the 14th period by the Chola dynasty rulers, the temple witnessed monolithic improvement implicit the consequent regimes, but has remained dilapidated for long. Repair and renovation works were taken up by the State Endowments Department recently, with respective donors chipping successful with their contributions, pursuing a telephone fixed by Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy.
The temple has been renovated with respective modern amenities required for the visiting devotees, without comprising connected its past look.
The large item is the ‘Rajagopuram’ (main tower) astatine the eastbound entrance, constructed astatine a outgo of ₹2 crore. The devotees utilized to locomotion into the temple done the occidental entrance, but the Agamas and Vaasthu Shastra, the doctrine of temple worship and operation engineering, suggested having an eastbound entrance.
The dilapidated footpath way starring to the hill-top temple has besides been replaced with a formation of stairs, built astatine ₹50 lakh.
Meanwhile, Mr. Prabhakar Reddy’s VPR Foundation, extended ₹2 crore to revive the past temple tank, which is besides considered to beryllium a root of groundwater recharge for the full region. Similarly, Bachu Charitable Trust has constructed a Kalyana Mandapam worthy ₹2 crore.
