Pushpa Yagnam Marks the end of Vaibhavotsavams in Vijayawada
More than 10 lakh Devotees have attended the ‘Pushpa Yagam’ (shower of flowers on deities) organized by TTD at the PWD grounds in Vijayawada on the Ashada Poornima Day.
The Pushpa Yagam marked the end of eight-day spiritual programme of Venkateswara Vaibhavotsavams conducted by Tirumala Tiruapti Devasthanams (TTD). Lord Malayappa Swamy along with his two consorts Sri Devi and Bhu Devi were seated on a royally decked throne and were rendered in a rich floral bath with 12 varieties of aromatic flowers and six traditional leaves.
Various flowers like rose, chrysanthemum, Magnolia champaca, oleander, water lilies, fragrant screwpine/pandanus flower), jasmine, and six varieties of leaves like tulasi , maruvam (marjoram), bilwam (Bael) and so on were used on the grand occasion.
The event was a visual delight to many devotees who gathered at the grounds as each time the idols remained neck-deep immersed in the floral mound formed due to the ceaseless offering of the flowers by the TTD priests amidst vedic chants from by Rig, Sukla yujurveda, Krishna yajurveda, Samaveda and Adharvana veda scholars. The priests ceremonially cleared the flowers showered on the deities and the spiritual exercise was repeated until about three tonnes of flowers of varied hues have gone in the yagam.
