Balaji Darshan and Echoor trip

The initial pace at which the kuldev trips began definitely slowed down as the year progressed, the main reason being the unavailability of one or the other due to personal commitments.

But still it is in each and everyone's heart to complete this wonderful journey!

By September, we had covered Kalyan, Karthik, Jagan with a trip to Tirupati in between.

Tirupati was a memorable trip with the kids also joining us.

The trip happened in July with two own cars and an Innova from Ravi Travels exclusively for the ladies. Kids Adhi, Amrita and Pavitra were care of Satish uncle. Ranga, Karthik, Kalyan and Jagan were in the third car.

First stop was breakfast followed by photo session.

We then proceeded to Prasanna Venkatesa Perumal temple in Appalayagunta where Venkatesa Perumal and Goddess Padmavathi are said to have stayed for a few days after their wedding.

guys in share auto as ravi travels car wasnt allowed

The temple was quite crowded as it was already Aadi maasam for Telugu people, though it was still Aani for us.

A lady was performing musical harikatha with fervour.

Being quite an old temple of medium size, it had main sannidhi of Perumal and also separate sannidhis for Goddess Padmavathi, Andal and Anjaneyar.

Our next visit was to Thiruchaanoor Padmavathi Thaayar temple. Thaayar was resplendent in her alangaram and ready to bless all the devotees benevolently as always.

Lunch at Bhimas was a noisy affair with 13 people ordering different stuff. 

Post lunch Kalyan and Adhi were supposed to climb the hill by foot when Ranga suddenly decided to join them. 

Rest of the crowd went up by car to relax in the room.

Our darshan slot was booked for next day morning by 11am and hence the whole of the evening was at our disposal. It has been eons since I roamed around the grounds of Tirupati temple and enjoyed it especially in the company of our lot! We decided to go one full round visiting the Varahaswamy temple and Hayagreevar temple on the way with many a photo session in between. It was enjoyable with the weather being very pleasant!

With dinner at Annamaya and we called it a day!

Morning began with breakfast at Annamaya followed by joining the queue for darshan. As we started early, there was not much crowd and we could run through the counters but they made us wait in one slot for more than an hour. We started reciting Vishnu Sahasranamam followed by Srinivasa Govinda namavali printed by Jayaraman mama (Kalyan's father).

A Telugu devotee in the queue followed and started singing songs and this namavali with so much of passion that made the waiting period very pleasant and a devotional one!

Close to the sanctum it was push and pull as usual, with our lot getting separated into 2-3 groups, but the darshan was Ultimate as always.

Meeting place was outside the sanctum followed by quick darshan of Vagulamala and offerings in undial and collection of laddu prasadam.

Once Darshan was completed it was time to get down the hill, have lunch and get back home! But all of us wanted to repeat this experience again! Hope it happens!

To continue with Kuldev trips, the group took a sudden decision on 21 September by 12 noon to visit Satish's kuladeivam Kali Amman in Echoor.

As it involved a duration of only 4-5 hours, we could take a quick decision and execute this trip with visits to two more temples nearby. That Ranga and I had to leave his cousin who had visited on that day at a loose end is another story, but we did not want to miss a Kuldev trip for any reason.

Ravi Travels tempo traveller picked us up from home instead of the usual meeting point at Ramaniyam as a special case. As we crossed Porur it rained heavily for 15 minutes and we thought our trip was going to be affected. But the ever-merciful Goddess, made the trip successful!

First was visit to Sreedevi Kaliamman temple in Echoor. I believe the temple was in a bad shape before Satish's family and a few other families made an effort to restore its structure as it stands today. 

 

 Our own "Kamala" also had a hand in directing Jayashree to their Kuladeivam! By the time we got down from the tempo traveller, dusk was falling and the first thing we saw was the kutti temple chariot! It was made of wood and had intricate work on it, We entered the temple to see a kutty Goddess beautifully decked! 
Like the saying, மூர்த்தி சிறியதானாலும், கீர்த்தி பெரியது, the Goddess is all powerful and kaaval deivam for Echoor. Jayashree had brought many offerings to the Goddess and after archanai and deeparathanai, we came out to go around the temple. Satish described how their family - close as well as extended, had taken part in the temple restoration.

We crossed the renovated temple pond, to go to Maragathavalli sametha Markandeswarar Temple. 

According to the Gurukkal, the temples were probably a at least 700 years old, though he was not sure about it. We went about the outer prakaram first, taking a look at the colourful pink arali, yellow flowers and white nandiyavattai plants around the prakaram. The Vinayagar in goshtam had a very cute thoppai that Suja wanted to cuddle Him!

The other goshta moorthies where Mahavishnu, Brahma, Durgai and Chandikeswarar. There was a Sakthi Ganapathy and a Sastha also in the prakaram. Of course, like all Sivan temples there were the Navagrahas and Kalabhairavar. Completing the round, we entered the sannidhi to pray to the Lord and the Goddess. The main sannidhi had a big Lingam and huge avudai, but the Goddess stole our hearts with her majestic appearance. With our very minimal knowledge, we could make out that the idol of the Goddess must be ancient, most probably older than the 700 years as informed by the Gurukkal. He also showed us an inscription on the wall written in an ancient version of Telugu which even those native to the language couldn’t comprehend what was written there. 
The only thing they could make out was that the Kanchi Mutt head before our Periyava—Sri Mahadevandra Saraswathi VI—had visited the temple in 1907. The Gurukkal also said that legend says that Echadattar (father of Chandikeswarar, who is one of the 63 Nayanmars) was given darshan here by the Lord on the tamizh month of Chitirai, Sadaya Nakshatram. Hence the town is Echoor

Loaded with such interesting information, we proceeded to the Adhi Kesava Perumal temple. This temple is fairly new and had main sannidhi of Sreedevi Bhoodevi samedha Adhi Kesava Perumal. The road leading to the temple was decorated with lights and a large quantity of sundal for neiveidyam was getting ready. Swami oorvalam was to take place followed by the distribution of prasadam as it happened to be the 1st Saturday of the tamizh month of Purattasi.

Taking tulasi theertham, shadari and stealing a click of the urchavar ready for procession, we went to the bhajanai mutt down the road. This was a small place with a huge picture of Hanuman outside and Lord Rama with Seetha and Lakshmana inside the room. The Perumal temple Bhattar's son, a very cute little boy, enthusiastically showed deeparathanai and did Shadari for us. His mother was kind enough to offer us their house for our nature call. When we freshened up, they offered us chakara pongal which was amirtham at that point as all of us were hungry! As it was getting later we decided to have dinner on the way back successfully completing yet another Kuldev trip.

Kumbakonam trip

Day 1

The trip to Kumbakonam went off well as planned covering 14 temples including Kula deivams of Karthik, Jagan and parents’ side of yours truly.

Jayashree and Satish missed the trip due to a family function and we also missed them.

Trip started with eight of us meeting Rajni and Sajjan in Egmore to catch Uzhavan Express on Friday night. After relishing a cup of coffee in A2B, we boarded the train at 22:40 hours, reaching Kumbakonam on Saturday early morning. As usual Jagan fixed a short duration for us to get ready for breakfast and start the pilgrimage. We also took the challenge and got ready within the set time to have a good breakfast at Raya's Grand where we stayed.

 Theperumanallur

Our first visit was to Theperumanallur. 

Known for special pujas and annadhanam during Pradosha time, I expected the temple to be a typical big temple that I usually see in this region, but was a bit disappointed with the size of the gopuram. But the prakaram inside and the construction as per aagama vidhi made me realise how ancient the temple must be. Initially, we were greeted by closed doors but there were many flower sellers getting ready for their business. 

Suja drawing Kolam

A cute young chap of about 10 years opened the temple doors. When Karthik asked him if any elder will do the puja, the small lad replied that he will do it. He not only did the puja but also did a great job of explaining about the temple.

Kalyan helping Harshan to open the door

We entered from the west side entrance and prayed to Lord Ganesha and moved around to see the colourful sculptures. With many a photo session we went around to enter the sanctum to see the Lord in Linga roopam.

We prayed to Lord Naga Viswanathar also known as Rudrakeswarar. Adjacent to this sannidhi was the Rudraksha Lingam, a Lingam totally covered with strings of Rudraksham. When one visits this temple on pradosham day, one gets a Rudraksham as prasadam.

It is said the one who does not have rebirth is only destined to visit this temple. Once Agasthyar wanted to come here and the Lord asked Makarandha Maharishi who was present in this temple to stop Agasthyar as he was not out of the birth-death cycle. Angered, Agasthyar cursed Makarandha Maharishi to become Yazhi faced (yazhi, the legendary animal that has a lion like face). The saapa vimochanam suggested by Agasthyar was to do puja to the Lord here with different offerings / flowers every day without repetition.  Makarandha Maharishi followed this for many years and one day during puja, his Rudraksha mala snapped and the Rudrakshas fell on the Lingam as offerings. This is the legend behind the Rudraksha prasadam on pradosham day. The kurukkal was kind enough to give us some Rudrakshams as prasadam!

In Jan 2010 a snake had come into the sanctum with a vilvam leaf plucked by itself right from the vilvam tree in the temple and placed it on the Shivalingam. The snake gained entry into the sanctum via the Abhishekam neer outlet. The snake did this puja to the Lord not once but thrice on the same day!

Also, on another occasion, a full sized skin of a long snake was seen lying on the Rudraksha Lingam which is in a sanctum adjacent to the main sannidhi. A picture of the snake skin can be seen in the temple.

The Ambal named Vedanta Nayaki, stands there majestically, blessing one and all. 10-year-old Harshan, along with an elder person, performed the archanai for us in all the sannidhis.

Next to the Ambal sannidhi, we could see two Bhairavars – one tall and one short along with Sani Bhagawan standing proudly with a hand on his hip. An interesting episode explains these forms here. Once Sani Bhagwan informed Ambal that it was time to afflict the Lord and instead of the 71/2 years applicable to humans, he will affect the Lord for 7/12 nazhigai (1 nazhigai = 24 minutes), he announced. Ambal suggested that Lord Shiva hide behind a tree and she stood guard for the stipulated time. Sani Bhagawan also stood in front of the Goddess for 3 hours. At the end of 3 hours, Sani Bhagwan walked back stating proudly that he made the Lord stand in a place for 7/12 nazhigai. The enraged Lord took the form of a huge Bhairava and tore Sani Bhagawan into two pieces. Later understanding that Sani was after all doing his duty, He calmed down and took the form of santha Bhairavar. Here we can see the tall angry Bhairavar, santha Bhairavar and proud Sani Bhagawan with a hand on his hip.

All this and more details of the temple was narrated cutely by the young priest Harshan.

Harshan with his sister

He went on to say how navagrahas in this temple face the Sun God in the centre. 

Also, the Dakshinamurthy here is called Annadhana Dakshinamurthy for whom the main neivedhyam is pazhaya saadham and onion. This Dakshinamurthy has Nandhi and Anna paravai as vahaanams and can be seen sitting on both of these. This sannidhi was closed but the curious Suja and I went in and made Harshan explain the other idols here like many naagams, another Lingam and Ambal.

The temple is full of idols of snakes, right from near the gopuram to a huge structure in the line of our pradakshinam. The entrance to the sanctum is a little round shaped due the Sun God praying to the Lord from the Eastern entrance.

Lord Ganesha and Lord Murugan are also seen on either side of the main sanctum.

The kurukkal was kind enough to show us the special flower Krishna pusham in this temple and our own botanist Suja promptly gave the botanical name of the flower - Passiflora coccinea.

After one more pradakshinam and namaskarams we got into the van for our next temple visit.

Thirupampuram

I have been curious about this temple having read briefly about it many years ago. Also, Rama's father had suggested a visit to the temple as pariharam for her children. My curiosity about the temple was its connection with snake, the Lord's name being Seshapureeswarar.

The main deity Shiva Lingam is quite ancient and powerful. This stalam is a parihara stalam for Rahu and Ketu. Like many other parihara stalams down south, this also is quite commercial. I am happy that the effect of this commercialism has not touched the main sanctum!  As we entered, to our right was the sannidhi of Rahu and Ketu. 

Rahu and Ketu stand here in one form with a Lingam on the chest. There is Sani bhagawan also standing nearby. We had a quick darshan and deeparathanai here as a long queue was waiting for Rahu kala abhishekam. We then proceeded to the main sanctum. A fair sized Linga placed on a short Avudai, Seshapureeswarar is named so as the Lord gave saapa vimocham to all the snakes here. Legend goes that once when Pillayar was praying to Lord Shiva, the snake in the Lord's neck proudly thought that Pillayar was praying to him. Lord Shiva cursed that all the snakes lose the power of their poison! The snakes prayed to the Lord in Thirupampuram and got the power of their poison back.

A weary Aadhiseshan, unable to withstand the weight of carrying this world on his back, prayed to the Lord here to get his strength back. One can see Aadhisheshan praying to the Lord n the main sanctum. 

Also, the theertham here is called Aadhiseshan theertham. After praying at the main sanctum, we went around the temple in circumambulation to pray at the sannidhi of Malai Eswarar, a Lingam sannidhi built at a slightly higher level with few steps to climb, Raja Ganapathy, Vanni Eswarar underneath the sthala vriksham Vanni maram, Murugan and then to the sannidhi of the Goddess. Here the Goddess is standing in a sannidhi parallel to the Lord (not perpendicular as we usually see in Sivan temples) such a beautiful name Vanduserkuzhali, Ambal stands majestically in a large sannidhi and blesses all. Pradakshinam completed with reaching the very crowded Rahu Ketu sannidhi, we came out to have a photo session before proceeding to Thirumeeyachur.

Thirumeeyachur

This is my third visit to this temple and the second one with sabai. A detailed description of this temple is there in my earlier blog.  This time also we could get some new information from a stranger who volunteered to explain in detail!

We entered the sannidhi of Goddess Lalithambigai hoping to recite Lalitha Sahasranamam sitting in front of Her. The kurukkal in charge seemed to be in a bad mood and insisted that we sit only in the outside corridor to recite the slokam.

A little upset with this objection, we went further inside and had the opportunity of seeing the abhishekam being performed to the Lord. After deeparathanai we went around the temple and a stranger came up voluntarily and explained right from the koshta idols around the sannidhis of the Lord and Goddess like Nardhana Ganapathy, Ksthera Puraneswarar. 

This is a beautiful sculpture of the God and the Goddess with the God holding the Goddess’s chin looking as though He is trying to pacify Her anger. But if you see from another angle, Ambal seems to be all smiles.  He also went on the explain how from a position we can see the Trinity Brahma, Vishnu and Sivan (Lingothbhavar) together as koshta murthys. Vishnu here is in a praying posture which is not seen anywhere. He is praying to Lord Shiva.

We went on to see the Ilankoil (a temple inside a main temple) and this man explained about the Durgai here. She is seen with a parrot in her hand. This parrot acts as a messenger conveying the bhaktas' wishes and prayers to the Goddess. He also said that after you pray to her, if you see a real parrot flying near the gopuram, it is understood that the message has reached the Goddess and the wish will be fulfilled. This is exactly what happened when we completed our prayer to Durgai.

Happy with this explanation, we came back to the Goddess sannidhi to witness full abhishekam, alankaram, followed by our recital of Lalitha sahasranamam. We were also blessed to get prasadam of chakara pongal and thamboolam from another group of ladies there. Since we spent a long time here, we had to cancel our trip to Eravancheri and proceeded straight to Puliancheri - Karthik's kula deivam.

Puliancheri

Covering the short distance by van, and after a short walk on a narrow path flanked by vayal on one side and vasambu kulam on the other side, we reached Karumbayiram konda Ayyanar temple and Akasa Veeran sannidhi.

A typical oor ellai koil with the idols of an elephant and a horse in the open, it was a very calm place. It was very pleasant there due to shades by Puliyamaram - reason for the place to be named Pulianchery?

The poosari first did puja at Aakasa Veeran sannidhi. This sannidhi does not have a roof and the Veeran stands along with his consorts Vellai amma and Bommi, wielding his sword, his legs apart, ready to fight the evil and guard the devotees! After archanai here, we took some photos as the location was scenic with a calm water canal and lots of greenery!  We then had darshan at Karumbiram Konda Ayyanar temple. 

We then went to the Maha Mariamman temple inside the village. A small temple with Goddess in the main sanctum, this temple has some colourful but ferocious looking idols of the Goddess, Akasa Veeran with his consorts and Karuppanna Swami.

Behind this temple is an ancient Sivan temple in a dilapidated state. It was quite dark and we could just make out the Siva Lingam and Ambal in parallel sannidhis. There was a huge Nandi vahanam, which is usually used for processions. This looked to be in a better state, maybe because it is not as old as the temple. We had a quick darshan and got back into the van as all our tummies were rumbling with hunger.

Rama had arranged for lunch at a known person’s place and they served us a full thalai vazhai ilai meal. We had our fill and headed back to the hotel for a siesta. On the way, I was thrilled to see the name Parithiyur and Aavanam, native place of my maternal grandmother and made a note to visit this place once with my sisters!

After resting for an hour, our evening temple visit began with Swamimalai.

Swamimalai

The kurukkal from Theperumanallur was here for arranging the darshan and we had the opportunity to witness the evening deepararathanai and spent quite a long time having the darshan of my favourite God at close quarters! Happy with the darshan we rushed to Nallur as the person I had spoken to, had told us to be there by 6:30 pm.

Nallur

Nallur temple, not exactly my Kula deivam on my paternal side, but a very important temple for my family. Details are here. This is why I wanted it added to our  kula deivam list

It had become dark by the time we reached, and I could not show the thirukulam to the others. This is the theeratham where sapta sagaram (seven seas) came when Kunti wanted to have a dip in the seven seas to wash her sin of giving birth to Karna out of wedlock. It is said the sapta sagaram comes here during masi maham. Here is a picture of a sangu taken out of this thirukulam during the masi magam in 2005.

We entered the temple and went straight up to Kalyanasundareswar Sannidhi. Had a good darshan here along with Shadari before going to Girisundari ambal sannidhi.

We then came down to Ashta bhuja Mahakali sannidhi. Rama could feel the connection with this Goddess so much that she felt She was talking to her!

I was once again in awe at the size of this temple with huge walls! 

After having a few words with the new people in charge of festivals, we proceeded to Patteeswaram.

Patteeswaram

photo from my earlier blog

As it was past 8 pm, we thought of having at least darshan of the Durgai, but were lucky to visit all sannidhis!  Suja and I went in late after buying a lemon garland and lotus garland. It was so calm there and we had a great darshan of the Goddess who has been there blessing her devotees with victory right from the Chola period!

We then went in to have darshan of Dhenupureeswarar and Gnanambikai. We recollected the reason for Nandi being on one side here and muthu pandal for Thirugnansambandar.

When Thirugnanasambandar went to have darshan of this Lord, the Lord could not wait to see him, that he asked Nandhi to move aside so that He could see his devotee! Also, the Lord arranged for a muthu pandal here for Thirugnanasambandar as he could not bear the child devotee walking in the hot Sun!

We had to force Rajni to come out of the sannidhi of Dhenupureeswarar, such was her connection with her Sivan!

We were also happy to have a good darshan of Bhairavar, that day being theipirai ashtami, a day special for Bhairavar puja.

Suja quickly made some purchases for the next day’s puja at their kula deivam temple and we proceeded to Kumbakonam, heading straight to Mangalambikai mess for dinner. We had to enter via one gate of the temple to go to Kumbeswarar kadai veedhi where the mess is located. We were expecting native tiffen like arisi upma and adai avaiyal but all these were over and had to satisfy ourselves with the same old dosai! To compensate, we had ice-cream at Raya’s before retiring to our rooms for the night!

Day 2

In our last trip, we could not visit any temple inside Kumbakonam which was a big disappointment for us. So this time, before proceeding to Thirukadayur where Jagan’s kula deivam temple is, we covered a few temples in Kumbakonam.

Sarangapani temple

First was my favourite Sarangapani. Darshan of this Lord brought back many memories of summer holidays fun with Sabitha and Rohini and seeing this Lord first time in awe; hearing his stories from my Mom! I looked at Him in awe this time too. We had darshan of the Goddess Komalavalli thayar before climbing the steps to have darshan of Palli konda Sarangapani, the Lord who came down in a chariot to earth to marry the Goddess! 

photo taken during my earlier visit

We perambulated around the temple and a stranger asked us go to the sannidhi of Pathala Srinivasar. All were quite happy to do so as all had wishes of planning a trip to Tirupathi!

Kumbeswarar temple

Our next visit was to the main temple of Kumbakonam, Kumbeswarar temple.

Not much crowded in the morning, we had a great darshan of Lord Kumbeswarar and the most beautiful Goddess, Mangalambikai.

Perambulating around the temple I noticed a beautiful sculpted idol of Karthikeyar with Valli and Deivayanai.

On our way out, there was also a sannidhi for Sri Lakshmi Narayanar.

Chakrapani temple

There was enough time for just one more temple in Kumbakonam before proceeding to Thirukadayur and we decided on Chakrapani. We had to wait here for some time for darshan. This is the only temple where the Lord is in the roopam of Chakrathaazhwar as main deity!  After darshan here, we had darshan of Vijayavalli Thayar, I recalled that my mother was named Vijayalakshmi after this Goddess!

After this we headed straight to Thirukadayur. On the way, Suja started stringing the champanki she had bought in Kumbakonam as beautiful as she always does to be offered to their kula deivam.

Thirukadayur – Abirami temple

After a very brief darshan of Lord Amirthakadeswarar and Goddess Abirami Ammai at the ever-crowded temple of Thirukadayur, we headed to Angala Parameswari temple in this town itself.

Thirukadayur – Angala Parameswari temple

This is the kula deivam of Jagan. Suja had plans to offer Maavilaku at the temple. We all relaxed at the temple when she prepared for Maavilaku. 

After Maavilaku, we had darshan of Abhishekam of Angala parameswari followed by deeparathanai.

The delicious chakara pongal, pulianchaadam and thayirsadam offered to the Goddess was our lunch along with some crispy chips bought on the way. After a delicious meal, the sleepy lot had some lazy discussion eating the maavilaku maavu as additional dessert. Soon it was time to leave for Sirgazhi. On the way we stopped from some coffee.

Sirgazhi

I was amazed by the size of Sirgazhi temple! The sannidhi of the God and Goddess are two separate temples! We first prayed at Lord Shiva’s sannidhi – called Brahmapureeswarar. As we went around the sannidhi, people were pointing above where the window of Sattainathar sannidhi was visible. When we reached the staircase, we were disappointed to note that Thoniappar and Sattainathar sannidhi will be opened only by 5 pm. We were not very confident about waiting for same as we had plans of visiting Vaitheeswaran Koil before dinner and catching the train. But Suja and Rajni who were familiar with the temple insisted that first timers like me do not miss it. We went around the prakaram outside with the feel that the temple badly needed some renovation!

We then proceeded to Ambal sannidhi crossing the huge temple tank – Brahma theertham. 

This is the place where Thirugnanasambandar had darshan of the Lord and Goddess and was fed milk by the Goddess. There were many posters around stating that the Thirumulaipaal urchavam had taken place recently. Ambal Thirunilai Nayaki aka Sthira Sundari, (I love the way the name has been translated from Sankrit to Tamizh and vice versa!) in standing posture blessed us all. Iccha sakthi, Kriya sakthi and Gnana sakthi are some of the koshta deivams around the sannidhi of the Goddess. We had to wait some time before darshan,  so some photo session also happened.

On our way back from the Goddess’s sannidhi, seeing a lot fish in the theertham, we fed some pori to them.

By this time, the sannidhi upstairs was open. We climbed the stairs to have darshan of Thoniappar and Periyanayaki. I was zapped to see the size of the idols! It was so beautifully made that we could see the nerves running through the Lord’s open chest! 

courtesy:google

This is the Lord and Goddess who gave darshan to Thirugnanasambandar. They are seated on a boat signifying that during pralayam, Thoniappar (thoni meaning boat), along with Goddess Periyanayaki, carried things necessary for procreation and sailed in a boat! Having had our fill, we climbed one more floor to have darshan of Sattainathar. We could see only from the window and it was not a very clear darshan. I hear different versions about this Lord from the net one of which is that this is Lord Bhairavar who controlled Lord Narasimha! 

Satisfied with the darshan we got into the van to go to Vaitheeswaran koil.

Vaitheeswaran Koil

Goddess Thayalnayaki sannidhi was crowded for deeparathanai, but we had a great darshan of Vaitheeswaran. With special prayers for improvement of health of people close to us, we came out to offer uppu and milagu for health. We had a bit of prasadam and had a very peaceful darshan of Goddess as all the crowd had cleared by then. Next was the sannidhi of Selvamuthukumaraswamy (what an endearing name) and on pradakshinam we prayed at the sannidhi of Sevvaai, this temple being the Angarahan sthalam in the Navagrahas temples around Kumbakonam.

Next stop was for a delicious dinner of idly and dosa with very refreshing buttermilk at Ramana's in Aaduthurai.  It was time to go to the station to catch Uzhavan Express.

Completing yet another religious trip successfully covering some Kula deivams as planned, we all settled for the night looking forward to go back to our routine on Monday!

Hope the Lord of Tirupathi gives us darshan soon as this is the next religious trip we tentatively planned!