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The Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple astatine Kasibugga successful Srikakulam district, wherever the tragic stampede occurred connected Saturday, was built reportedly by Hari Mukunda Panda, an 80-year-old nonmigratory of Palasa municipality who primitively hailed from Odisha. Spread implicit 12.40 acres, the temple is presently being managed by Mukunda.
According to residents, Mukunda visited Tirupati for the darshan of Sri Venkateswara Swamy a fewer years ago, but could not get to glimpse the presiding deity contempt waiting successful queue for astir 5 hours. Disheartened, helium shared the acquisition with his mother, who past suggested that helium conception a temple akin to the 1 successful Tirupati, truthful that not lone helium but besides others incapable to sojourn Tirupati could person the darshan of Lord Venkateswara locally.
Following his mother’s advice, his household built the temple connected 12.40 acres, ensuring that the idol of Sri Venkateswara was designed to intimately lucifer the archetypal 1 astatine Tirupati. The temple was consecrated astir six months ago, but rapidly gained popularity among the locals and besides successful Odisha, with a fig of societal media influences doing tours of the temple.
Over the past fewer months, the communicative of Hari Mukunda Panda’s devotion dispersed crossed respective villages successful the district. Devotees from interior parts of Srikakulam and adjacent from neighbouring Odisha fondly notation to it arsenic ‘Chinna Tirupati’ and sojourn the temple successful ample numbers to connection prayers, particularly connected auspicious dates, specified arsenic connected Saturday (November 1), which coincidentally was the archetypal Ekadasi of the auspicious Kartika masam (Kartika month), arsenic per the Hindu calendar.
