| Tirumula Tirumula is about 15km North of Tirupati. The temple there in the seven hills is the home of Sri Venkateshwara (also called Balaji), after whom the SV University is named. |
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| View of Tirupati, on the way up the hills |
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| But who and where is that bugga? |
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| The gopuram over the entrance to the sanctuary |
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| The gold roof of the sanctuary |
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| Entrance to inner sanctuary beneath gopuram with the caged queue running along wall and gold dome inside |
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| Happy pilgrims |
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| A few exhausted pilgrims cooling off |
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| A colourful subsidiary shrine |
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| Before (or after?) visiting Sri Venkateshwara worshippers break coconuts to represent discarded sins (??) |
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| Neatly smashed. When I did this in a village temple I damaged half the population with shrapnel |
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| Buy your coconuts here |
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| Photo sir - us, not nuts. No comment |
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| The usual rows of stalls selling relevant religious stuff plus toys and other trivia |
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| One white face |
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| Newly shaven (Ayappa?) pilgrims |
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| As demanding as small village boys for photo sir |
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| I am not sure what he is making but a photo was requested |
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| I still cannot see what he is making |
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| Guru with his student |
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| I envied him |
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| A priest keeping up with the world |
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