Tirumala: Tiruppavai from December 17

 

Tiruppavai Pasura Parayanam will replace Suprabhata Seva from December 17 onwards in Tirumala temple as Dhanurmasam commences at 6:57am on December 16.

Every year during the auspicious Dhanurmasam, one among the 12 Alwars, Andal Sri Goda Devi, the only female Alwar, penned 30 Pasurams and on each day one Pasuram is recited in Ekantam till January 14 before the presiding deity instead of Suprabhatam which is in vogue for several centuries. This is a common religious practice in all the Sri Vaishnavaite temples across the country in this holy month.

Even during Ekanta Seva, inside the temple in the late night, instead of Bhoga Srinivasa Murty, the idol of Sri Krishna Swamy is worshipped on the swing.