Low-key Rama Navami celebrations
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Amid rising COVID instances, the celestial marriage ceremony of Lord Rama along with his consort Sita was solemnised at a easy ceremony as per Vedic rituals contained in the seventeenth century Sri Sitaramachandra Swamy temple in Bhadrachalam on Wednesday.
Sri Rama Navami celebrations turned out to be a low-key affair within the absence of devotees with solely a choose few dignitaries and the important workers of the temple collaborating within the annual non secular fete in particular person.
The stay telecast of Tiru Kalyana Mahotsavam (celestial marriage ceremony) from the temple throughout a number of tv channels offered a digital fete expertise for devotees, providing some solace for the ardent devotees of Lord Sitaramachandra Swamy.
In adherence to the age-old custom, Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar and Endowments Minister Indrakaran Reddy introduced mutyala talambralu and pattu vastrams on behalf of the federal government to the temple deity on the celestial marriage ceremony amid chanting of Vedic hymns by the temple monks.
Bhadrachalam MLA Podem Veeraiah, Endowments Department Commissioner Anil Kumar, Additional Collector K Venkateswarlu, and Superintendent of Police Sunil Dutt, have been current.
As a part of efforts to forestall the unfold of coronavirus infections, the temple authorities have utterly suspended every kind of darshans, pujas/sevas and annadhanam seva on April 21 and 22.
The Maha Pattabisheka Mahotsavam will likely be held with out devotees contained in the temple on April 22 in compliance with security protocols, temple sources stated. All devotees are barred from collaborating within the annual non secular occasion slated to be held on the historic shrine on Thursday.
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