Vellai Sattupadi Utsavam Held

Tirumala, 17 April 2017: On the sixth day of the otngoing 19-day religious fete of Sri Vaishnava Saint Sri Ramanujacharya, on Tuesday, Vellai Sattupadi Utsavam was held.

According to this fete, Sri Bhashyakarulavaru was dressed in white silk pattu clothes brought from Sri Rangam. As per the legend, on the request of one of his disciples Sri Kurattalwar, Sri Ramanujacharya had spent spiritual life for 14 years in Melkote of Karnataka. To mark this occasion he was dressed in white clothes instead of his usual saffron clothes.

So the same was replicated on Tuesday and Sri Ramanujacharya was taken on a procession in Tiruchi along four mada streets in Tirumala.

Jiyar Swamy, Tirumala JEO

KS Sreenivasa Raju and others were also present.