Ancient Artefacts Donated to SV Museum

A devotee from US, Smt Vinjamuri Sandhya on Thursday donated ancient artefacts worth lakhs to the SV Museum of Tirumala and same were handed over to TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy.

The artefacts included musical instruments like Tambura, Veena besides Panchaloha idol of Sri Nammalwar, Mini Bhagavad Gita, Silver framed portraits of Sri Venkateswara Swami and Sri Padmavati Ammavaru, artefacts made in ivory etc.

Smt Sandhya happens to be the grand daughter of the prominent Carnatic Music exponent Dr Vinjamuri Varadaraja Iyengar.

Dr. Iyyangar was a contemporary of exponents like Smt MS Subbulakshmi, Sri Veturi Prabhakar Shastri and Sri Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma who all participated in the Annamacharya festivities.

Museum Officer of TTD Dr Krishna Reddi was also present.