Summary:
Bhanu Raja, Executive Officer of Sri Pydithalli Ammavari Devasthanam at a press conference on Saturday. Meesala Geeta, MLA, Adithi Gajapathi, daughter of Union Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, and others participated. more-in‘Sirimaanu’, the ceremonial pole for the annual ‘Sirimaanotsavam’ of Sri Pydithalli Ammavaru, which is scheduled to be performed on October 3, was identified by the temple’s chief priest Tallapudi Bhaskar Rao in an orchard of Battu Bangaramma at Reddikapeta, a hamlet of D.
Kollam panchayat in Denkada mandal, said P.V.A.V.S. He said the tree would be felled on a auspicious day and carted to the chief priest’s house at Hukumpeta where it would be shaped into a ceremonial pole. In the morning, amid chanting of Vedic hymns by rithviks and beating of drums, ‘Pandiri Raata’ was laid at ‘Chaduru Gudi’and ‘Vanam Gudi, which indicates beginning of the celebrations..