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The National Sanskrit University (NSU) organised a symposium, sheet treatment and an accumulation connected ‘Ahobila Paruveta Utsavam’, present connected Friday (December 12, 2025), highlighting the unsocial privilege the Chenchu tribal assemblage has with the Ahobilam shrine and the deity of Lord Narasimha.
The event, which was conducted successful collaboration with the Tirupati portion of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) and the Nandyal section of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), provided the close level for a elaborate treatment connected the historical, ritualistic, social, and creator value of the ‘Paruveta Utsavam,’ a festival that resembles mock hunting, a unsocial signifier that has been passed connected done generations for centuries.
NSU Vice-Chancellor G.S.R. Krishnamurthy, who formally inaugurated the event, emphasised the value of world institutions successful conducting technological probe connected Indian festival traditions profoundly embedded successful the country’s intangible taste heritage.
Calling festivals similar ‘Paruveta’ arsenic reflecting the ‘eternal brilliance of Indian civilisation’, helium advocated the value of enhanced supervision and postulation of probe papers connected specified practices.
IGNCA’s Tirupati Regional Director K.T.V. Raghavan recalled the anthropological and mythological value of the Ahobilam traditions and dwelt connected the important relation played by IGNCA successful preserving India’s intangible taste heritage. He said that the NSU was besides committed to taste probe and practice preservation, frankincense contributing to Indian accepted knowledge, spirituality, and creator heritage.
INTACH Nandyal chapter’s co-convener K.B. Sethuraman presented a probe insubstantial connected the humanities inheritance of the 45-day people festival, which involves information from the indigenous (Chenchu) tribal communities arsenic good arsenic the temple priests, frankincense breaching the barriers of societal and caste divisions. He besides explained successful this discourse the connection to question UNESCO designation to this unsocial signifier arsenic “an intangible heritage”.
A specially curated accumulation showcased uncommon photographs, accepted creation pieces, and ocular narratives, which helped the visitors acquisition the spiritual and taste grandeur of the unsocial people festival.
