Tirumala: Akkagarla Gudi Puja on December 13
The annual Puja ceremony at Akkagarla Gudi located on the First Ghat Road will be observed on December 13. On this occasion, Special Puja will be performed under the aegis of the TTD Transport department on Friday.
History:
When TTD was constructing
the first Ghat Road(Down Ghat Road) in the early1940s, several incidents
occurred that hampered the construction process when they removed the seven
bricks.
After learning about the
significance and power of the cave temple by the locals TTD has enshrined these
Seven Bricks underneath a huge rock on the First Ghat Road and after that, the
Ghat Road works were completed without any hitch.
AGE OLD BELIEF:
The locals strongly
believe that these Seven Bricks of this Cave temple are incarnations of “Saptha
Matrukas”—Brahmi, Indrani, Kaumari, Vaishnavi, Maheshwari, and Chamundi—as
mentioned in the Puranas. In the local language, they worship them as Saptha
Gangammas or Eduguru Akkagarlu.
The locals strongly
believe that these Folk Deities are the sisters of Sri Venkateswara Swamy and
the Guardians of the pilgrims trekking this route and protect the pilgrims to
reach their destination safely avoiding road accidents and untoward incidents during
their pilgrimage to Tirumala.
However, TTD has
introduced the annual Puja officially in 2008 and since then has been regularly
grandly observing this fete. On this auspicious day in the sacred month of
Karthika, the employees, locals, and devotees offer prayers to these seven folk
goddesses seeking their divine blessings
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