Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa Offers Prayers At Tirupati; Leaves For Colombo
The visiting chief used to be offered a sacred silk material, a holy souvenir and sacred prasadam.
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh:
Sri Lankan Top Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa introduced prayers on the well-known Lord Venkateswara temple at close by Tirumala on Tuesday and left for Colombo, polishing off his five-day excursion of India. Mr Rajapaksa, who stayed on the closely guarded TTD Visitor Space at the hills in a single day after his arrival on Monday night time, got here to the over 2,000-year outdated shrine simply prior to the crack of morning time and spent about an hour, officers stated.
Clad within the conventional apparel of white blouse and silk dhoti, the 74-year outdated Lankan chief, an ardent devotee of Lord Venkateswara, used to be accorded a standard reception through best government and carried out to the sanctum sanctorum, amid chanting of Vedic hymns through clergymen.
Mr Rajapaksa witnessed the weekly Ashtadala Paada Padmaradhana ritual, wherein clergymen carried out ”archana” to the idol of the presiding deity Lord Venkateswara the use of 108 golden lotuses, a temple respectable instructed PTI.
The visiting chief used to be offered a sacred silk material, a holy souvenir and sacred prasadam through the temple officers.
He had arrived at the hills on Monday through highway from Renigunta airport, about 20 kms from right here.
After a short lived halt within the visitor area on his go back from the temple, Mr Rajapaksa left for Colombo from Renigunta.
That is Mr Rajapaksa’s maiden seek advice from to the temple as Top Minister. He had visited the shrine and paid his obeisance to Lord Venkateswara on a number of events previously because the island country’s President and in addition after demitting the top place of business, officers stated.
Mr Rajapaksa, who arrived in India on Friday on his first in a foreign country excursion after being appointed as Sri Lankan top minister in November closing yr, had visited Varanasi, Sarnath and Bodh Gaya after his engagements in New Delhi.
On Saturday, Top Minister Narendra Modi had held talks with Rajapaksa, elder brother of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, overlaying all the expanse of bilateral ties between the 2 international locations together with in spaces of defence and safety.
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