Tirumala town in Tirupati district is festively adorned with lights and flowers for Ratha Saptami at Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple. Devotees gather for the Vahana Sevas procession beginning at 5 AM.

They prepare for darshan of Lord Venkateswara Swamy at Sri Lakshmi Venkateswara Swamy Vari temple at Devuni Kadapa in Kadapa, southern Andhra Pradesh. Afew days before Ugadi, they stop eating non ...