The front portion is set to represent Brahma, the knot Vishnu and rest Rudra. The knot will be about 2 inches (angular) in length and will be in the middle thus having about 4 inches (angular) of darbha (grass) fire in the front. This sambandhakurca is a bunch of 32 blades of darbha (grass) tied by a knot in a rightward direction. The vaikhanasa practice is to establish a connection between the Dhruvabera and the Kantukabera through a sambandhakurca during worship. But all worship in the sanctum is done to this idol. The height of the icon gifted by Samarai, the Pallava Princess does not reach even the anklet of the Dhruvabera. He will be lifted from that cot and will be taken back to the sanctum to rest near the feet of the Dhruvabera on the left side. When he was ceremonially put to sleep in a cot during Ekantaseva.
Who acted as Sayanabera the previous night. The next ritual is to remove Bhoga Srinivasa. The ekangin would have lighted the Brahmakhanda and sara lamps. While inside the Bangaru Vakili the antarala the golla with his fireband (torch) would have lighted all the lamps. Mangalasasana verses composed by Sri Pratiradibhayankaram Annan. There will be priests outside who will start reciting suprabhatam, stotra, prapatti. Meantime in the Mukhamantapa the devotees for the Suprabhataseva would have assembled. The other door depicts the dradasanama devatas viz. On one door all the ten avataras (incarnations) of the Lord are depicted. One should not miss studying these two doors in detail as they depict religious facts. Here the two doors are massive and covered with gold plate. The 'golla', the paricaraka, jeeyar & arcaka will go in and the Bangaru Vakili doors will be closed from inside.īangaru Vakili is a telugu word which means 'golden doorway'. Then he will take the key from the dvarapalaka and seal is broken and the doors of golden vakili will be opened uttering suitable mantras. The priest will do pranama to dvarapaladeras near the Bangaru Vakili. The arcaka will first symbolically place his key in the hand of the Dvarapalaka on the right of the Bangaru Vakili. The system is triplicate lock system with arcaka, Jiyyangar and temple authorities having one key each.
Meantime, the temple administration representative would have come there with one key.
The Jiyyangar or Ekangi will come carrying on their head a box, which contains one key (duplicate) and seals etc. The cowherd would go back and bring the Jiyyangar or his representative, Ekangi to the temple. The 'golla' would be holding a fireband in his hand when the priest has reached the main entrance of the temple. He will then do pranama to the key of the sanctum & proceed to the temple holding the key on his head, accompanied by paricarakas, temple paraphernalia and music. The areaka would have by that time had his morning bath, completed his nitya-karmanusthanas. Mangalasanam (Prayer to Lord's Glory): 14 slokas.Įarly in the morning at a time fixed the previous day itself 'golla' (cowherd) will go to the residence of the arcakas & collect them who have been allotted the duty in the sanctum sanctorum that day.Prapatti (Surrender to the Lord): 16 slokas.Strotram (Hymns to the Lord): 11 slokas.Suprabhatam (Waking the Lord): 29 slokas.Suprabhatam is the ritual performed in the Thirumani Mandapam, in front of the Bangaru Vakili, the golden doors leading to the sanctum, to wake up the main deity and his consorts from His celestial sleep by chanting of the sacred Suprabhatam hymns consisting of Pilgrims can perform sevas to both the main deity and the utsava murthi. 2.3 Sahasra Kalasabhishekam (Wednesday).2.2 Ashtadala Pada Padmaradhana (Tuesday).