Tirumala, 12 Feb. 19: The bright sunny day on Tuesday witnessed the first rays of Sun Lord touching the holy feet, chest and fore head of Sri Suryanarayana Murthy at around 6.57am in Tirumala during Surya prabha vahanam as a part of Radhasapthami.
The vahana seva commenced at 5.30am and glided swiftly across the four mada streets. All the 175 galleries are almost jam-packed by 5am itself.
About 2000 sevakulu were deployed on four mada streets to provide anna prasadam, drinking water and man the pilgrim crowd during the procession of vahanams. About 1000 scouts and guides also pressed into service to streamline the pilgrims.
Meanwhile Sri Malayappa Swamy took celestial ride on seven vahanams the entire day with chakra snanam between 2pm and 3pm. The morning vahanams included Surya Prabha between 5.30am and 8am, Chinna Sesha between 9am and 10am, Garuda Vahanam between 11am and 12noon, Hanumantha Vahanam between 1pm and 2pm.
The evening vahana sevas commenced with Kalpavriksha between 4pm and 5pm, Sarvabhupala between 6pm and 7pm and concluded with Chandra prabha vahanam between 8pm and 9pm.
Each mada street is monitored by a senior officer, reputation staffs to ensure hassle free arrangements to pilgrims. The arrangements are reviewed and inspected at regular intervals by TTD EO Sri Anil Kumar Singhal, Tirumala JEO Sri KS Sreenivasa Raju and CVSO Sri Gopinath Jetti.
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