‘Panchami Theertham’ brings curtains on Padmavati temple festival

Devotees successful ample numbers throng to witnesser ‘Panchami Theertham’ astatine the ineffable vessel of Tiruchanur Sri Padmavati Ammavari temple connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025), which besides brought curtains connected the yearly nine-day ‘Kartheeka Brahmotsavams’ celebrations astatine the shrine.

Every Brahmotsavam ends with ‘Chakra Snanam’, wherever the beatified discus is immersed into the temple vessel connected the last day. Since the Tiruchanur lawsuit ever falls connected ‘Panchami’, the 5th time successful a fortnight aft afloat satellite oregon caller satellite day, it is known arsenic ‘Panchami Theertham’. According to mythology, the Goddess is believed to person appeared connected a aureate lotus successful this tank.

A bid of rituals conducted to the processional deity of Goddess Padmavati ended with the priests taking the ‘Sudarsana Chakra’ into the vessel and immersing it astatine 12.10 p.m. The devotees, who were waiting successful the waist-deep water, took a dip simultaneously amid chants of ‘Govinda Govinda’. In presumption of the content that taking a beatified dip alongside the deity washes distant one’s sins, determination was a ample influx into the vessel close from the morning.

Earlier, the ‘Saarey’ oregon Padi, a acceptable of ineffable offerings from Sri Venkateswara to His beloved spouse connected Her quality day, was brought each the mode from Tirumala to Tiruchanur connected an elephant and was handed implicit to the priests. The acquisition included a uncommon aureate ‘Kamala Haram’ and an Addiga, weighing astir 1.14 kg and worthy ₹1.31 crore.

During the ‘Snapana Tirumanjanam’, the deities of the Goddess and the Chakra were fixed a celestial bath and adorned with saffron, pineapple, adust fruits, reddish and yellowish roseate petals and crowns made of tulasi garlands, which added to the grandeur of the event.

Apart from the elder and inferior pontiffs, TTD president B.R. Naidu, Executive Officer Anil Kumar Singhal, Chandragiri MLA Pulivarthi Nani, Joint EO V. Veerabrahmam, Chief Vigilance and Security Officer K.V. Muralikrishna, Superintendent of Police L. Subbarayudu, TTD’s Chief Engineer M. Satyanarayana, Financial Advisor and Chief Accounts Officer O. Balaji and Deputy EO (Padmavati temple) Harindranath took part.

The TTD president congratulated the temple absorption for the arrangements. The ineffable emblem hoisted connected the archetypal time was brought down during the prolonged ‘Dhwajaavarohanam’ ritual successful the evening, marking an extremity of the festival.