Tirupati Tirumala celebrates Thumburu Theertha Mukkoti

Tirumala, March 20: Huge crowd of devotees thronged the Thumburu Thirtha Mukkoti celebrations, organized after a gap of two years due to Covid by Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam (TTD), deep inside the Seshachalam forests on Friday, a statement said. The annual fete is held on the Pournami day of Phalguna month on the Uttara Phalguni star. Devotees were allowed inside the forest terrain on Thursday (from morning to evening in daylight) and on Friday for four hours from 6am to 10am only. In spite of tough terrain, as many as 13,200 devotees visited the sacred Theertha, one of the hundreds in the Seshachalam forest. A team of 80 sanitary workers of the TTD health wing, along with police, vigilance and Srivari Sevakulu provided support to devotees from Papanasam to Thumburu Theertha, the statement added. (UNI)